[R] method names conflict.

[Roger D. Peng]

If you are using S4 classes/methods you can just do

setGeneric("union")

and that converts union() into an S4 generic function.  Then you can use 
setMethod() to create a union() method for your own objects.  I think 
the original union() in the base package because the default method.

-roger

Wolski wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I would like to give my objects functions like "subset", "union", et cetera and name it also in this way.
> But this functions names are already used in the base package and they are not generic.
> I am right in that if they would be generic then i still can use the neat names with my objects?
> I have the impression that there are more and more packages are going to be developed. How this is going to be handled in future?
> 
> Eryk.
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