[Rd] One for the wish list - var.default etc

[Greg Snow]

The vcov function in package stats is already a generic, could you write
your methods for vcov rather than for var?

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> [mailto:r-devel-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of S Ellison
> Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 4:02 AM
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> Subject: [Rd] One for the wish list - var.default etc
> 
> I was working on a permutation-like variant of the bootstrap 
> for smaller samples, and wanted to be able to get summary 
> stats of my estimator conveniently. mean() is OK as its a 
> generic, so a mean.oddboot function gets used automatically. 
> But var, sd and others are not originally written as generic; 
> they have to be explicitly masked by a package or new declaration.
> 
> It would have been nice if stats::var was a generic to make 
> it more easily extensible... one for the wish list?
> 
> Steve Ellison
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