[Rd] Unhidden predict methods
Henric Nilsson (Public)
nilsson.henric at gmail.com
Fri Mar 16 13:42:35 CET 2007
Den 2007-03-16 13:25, Prof Brian Ripley skrev:
> The reason some are not hidden is historical: they were called
> explicitly by (contributed) package code at the time namespaces were
> introduced.
Ah, I see.
In that case I'll just hide away as much as possible in the new package
I'm working on.
> It would be a good idea to revisit some of those decisions, but it is
> not a very appealing way to spend one's time.
Agreed.
Thanks again!
Henric
>
> On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, Henric Nilsson (Public) wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've noted that not all `predict' methods are hidden in the namespace:
>>
>> > methods("predict")
>> [1] predict.ar* predict.Arima*
>> [3] predict.arima0* predict.glm
>> [5] predict.HoltWinters* predict.lm
>> [7] predict.loess* predict.mlm
>> [9] predict.nls* predict.poly
>> [11] predict.ppr* predict.prcomp*
>> [13] predict.princomp* predict.smooth.spline*
>> [15] predict.smooth.spline.fit* predict.StructTS*
>>
>> Non-visible functions are asterisked
>>
>> I'm sure there's a good reason for this, but I haven't been able to
>> figure it out. Please enlighten me.
>
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