[R] R can't find some functions in assist package

[roger koenker]

An R-News or J. of Statistical Software note titled, "Getting to the 
Source
of the Problem"  detailing the basic strategies for these adventures in 
the
new world of S4 methods and namespaces would be very useful.

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On Jun 30, 2004, at 8:03 PM, Liaw, Andy wrote:

> That's because `assist' has a namespace:
>
>> library(assist)
> Loading required package: nlme
>> predict.ssr
> Error: Object "predict.ssr" not found
>> methods("predict")
>  [1] predict.ar*                predict.Arima*
>  [3] predict.arima0*            predict.glm
>  [5] predict.gls*               predict.gnls*
>  [7] predict.HoltWinters*       predict.lm
>  [9] predict.lme*               predict.lmList*
> [11] predict.loess*             predict.mlm
> [13] predict.nlme*              predict.nls*
> [15] predict.poly               predict.ppr*
> [17] predict.princomp*          predict.slm*
> [19] predict.smooth.spline*     predict.smooth.spline.fit*
> [21] predict.snm*               predict.snr*
> [23] predict.ssr*               predict.StructTS*
>
>     Non-visible functions are asterisked
>
> Use either assist:::predict.ssr or getAnywhere("predict.ssr").
>
> Andy
>
>> From: Michael Axelrod
>>
>> Oh yes. The "load package" under the "packages menu" in the
>> Windows version
>> does that. To check I typed "library(assist)" after starting R. Same
>> behavior, ssr is found, but others like predict.ssr, and
>> plot.ssr, give a
>> "not found" message.
>>
>> Thanks for the suggestion.
>>
>> Mike
>>
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