[R] S3 generics need identical signature?

[Gábor Csárdi]

On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Duncan Murdoch
<murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote:
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> The requirement is that the methods need to have signatures that contain all
> the arguments of the generic.  If the generic includes ..., then the methods
> can add other arguments, too.  So with the generic for plot() as you show
> above, any plot method is required to have x and y as the first two
> arguments, and ... as an argument, but they can have other args too.

This makes sense, and it is actually great! Thanks a lot for the explanation.

Best Regards,
Gabor

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