[Rd] Mismatches for methods registered for non-generic:

[Koenker, Roger W]

I’m trying to repair my SparseM package to meet new CRAN rules.  The fun part was rewriting the arithmetic-ifs in cholesky.f — to conform with new fortran rules.  (This struck me as a bit like updating “the wine dark seas”  in Homer.)  Now, my remaining trouble is that I have several functions declared as generic, e.g. 

setGeneric("as.matrix.coo")
setMethod("as.matrix.coo","matrix.csr", function(x, nrow, ncol,eps){.csr.coo(x)})

that have been fine until now and on my fresh R version 4.4.0 (2024-04-24) are still ok with R CMD check —as-cran but CRAN checking reveals, e.g.

Check: S3 generic/method consistency, Result: NOTE
 Mismatches for methods registered for non-generic:
 as:
   function(object, Class, strict, ext)
 as.matrix.coo:
   function(x, nrow, ncol, eps, …)

which I interpret as regarding  my generics as just S3 methods for the non-generic “as”.  Can someone advise on the best way to repair this?

With best regards, and eternal gratitude for the efforts of R-core in making R a living language.


Roger Koenker
r.koenker using ucl.ac.uk
Honorary Professor of Economics
Department of Economics, UCL
Emeritus Professor of Economics
	and Statistics, UIUC