[Rd] Nabble gibberish on R-devel: please stop it (Re: S3 internal ...)

Martin Maechler maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch
Thu Jun 4 15:01:52 CEST 2015


This is completely out of context,
(and mailman needs to "munge" your sender e-mail because of
 unpleasant DMARC stuff),

>>>>> edson bastos via R-devel <r-devel at r-project.org>
>>>>>     on Thu, 4 Jun 2015 05:13:55 -0700 writes:

    > I have found the following generics which your function did not inlcude.1]
    > "as.character.default"  "as.expression.default" "as.list.default"      
    > "as.name"              [5] "as.pairlist"           "as.single.default"    
    > "as.symbol"             "body<-"               [9] "kronecker" I used the
    > following code:base_objs              <-
    > objects("package:base")base_function        <-
    > mapply(function(x)ftype(get(x)), base_objs)base_objs_generic <-
    > base_objs[grep("generic",base_function)]

and is mangled because you've post via Nabble which may always
use HTML.

I'd really us to consider **banning** the use of Nabble for
R-devel, completely.  People on this list should be able to
subscribe to a mailing list and deal with mail filtering etc...

Martin Maechler,
ETH Zurich



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