[R] generic/method consistency ?

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

On 18 Jun 2002, Anders Nielsen wrote:

> Dear R-list
>
> I am compiling my first R-package and I get this warning:
>
> ...
> * checking generic/method consistency ... WARNING
> plot:
>   function(x, ...)
> plot.SimNI:
>   function(tags, closedArea, color, ...)
> ...
>
> What does this mean exactly?

The first argument of a plot method is named `x' according to the generic,
but yours is called `tags'.  See `Writing R Extensions' for why these need
to match.

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