[Rd] getAnywhere

[Peter Dalgaard]

"McGehee, Robert" <Robert.McGehee at geodecapital.com> writes:

> Shouldn't this work?
> 
> > .a <- 5
> > exists(".a")
> [1] TRUE
> > getAnywhere(".a")
> Error in exists(x, envir, mode, inherits) : 
> 	invalid first argument
> 
> getAnywhere doesn't seem to like the "." prefix. Is this a bug?

Yes. It goes looking for getS3method(gen="", cl="a", TRUE) without
checking whether gen (or cl) is empty. Looks like an easy fix.

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