[Rd] isGeneric() can return an error

[John Chambers]

Bug.  Should be fixed (rev 58642) in r-devel and R 2.15.0 alpha.

Thanks.

On 3/7/12 3:30 PM, Hervé Pagès wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I wonder if this is a feature or a bug:
>
> > isGeneric("&&")
>   Error in genericForPrimitive(f) :
>     methods may not be defined for primitive function ‘&&’ in this 
> version of R
> > isGeneric(":")
>   Error in genericForPrimitive(f) :
>     methods may not be defined for primitive function ‘:’ in this 
> version of R
>
> According to the man page:
>
>      ‘isGeneric’: Is there a function named ‘f’, and if so, is it a
>           generic?
>
> So it sounds like it should be a YES or NO answer.
>
> In any case the error message is confusing: it suggests that I'm trying
> to define methods for "&&", but I'm not.
>
> This is with R 2.13, R 2.14 and R 2.15.0 alpha.
>
> Thanks,
> H.
>