[Rd] Creating an S3 method when the generic function is defined in another (imported) package

[Arne Henningsen]

On 14 May 2010 10:37, Achim Zeileis <Achim.Zeileis at uibk.ac.at> wrote:
> On Fri, 14 May 2010, Arne Henningsen wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> In one of my packages (maxLik), I would like to add an S3 method,
>> where the generic function (estfun) is defined in another package
>> (sandwich). Everything works fine if my package "Depends" on the other
>> package and I import the generic function "estfun" from the "sandwich"
>> package and define the new method in the NAMESPACE file. However, I
>> prefer not to load the entire other package just to use a single
>> generic function from it. Therefore, I replaced "Depends" by "Imports"
>> in the DESCRIPTION file and (re-)exported "estfun" in the NAMESPACE
>> file. Now "R CMD check" warns about the undocumented code object
>> "estfun" but I do not want to include a duplicate of the documentation
>> of "estfun". Do you know a better solution?
>
> I probably wouldn't re-export the estfun() generic. People will probably
> load "sandwich" anyway before calling estfun(), in particular if they want
> to compute the sandwich() covariance matrix.

Good point!

Thanks a lot,
Arne

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