[R] Need Help: Installing/Using xtable package

[M. Jankowski]

Ok, I got it now.

Just: print(xtable(...),....)

Thanks!
Matt

On 8/9/07, Seth Falcon <sfalcon at fhcrc.org> wrote:
> Peter Dalgaard <p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk> writes:
>
> > M. Jankowski wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> Let me know if I need to ask this question of the bioconductor group.
> >> I used the bioconductor utility to install this package and also the
> >> CRAN package.install function.
> >>
> >> My computer crashed a week ago. Today I reinstalled all my
> >> bioconductor/R packages. One of my scripts is giving me the following
> >> error:
> >>
> >> in my script I set:
> >> library("xtable")
> >> print.xtable(....
> >>
> >> and receive this error:
> >> Error : could not find function "print.xtable"
> >>
> >> This is a new error and I cannot find the source.
> >>
> > Looks like the current xtable is no longer exporting its print methods.
> > Why were you calling print.xtable explicitly in the first place?
>
> Indeed, xtable now has a namespace.  The S3 methods are not exported
> because they should not be called directly; rather, the generic
> function (in this case print) should be called.
>
> The addition of the namespace is really a good.  Yes, it will cause
> some hicups for folks who were calling the methods directory (tsk
> tsk).  But the addition fixes breakage that was occuring due to
> internal xtable helper functions being masked.
>
> + seth
>
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