[R] How can I overwrite a method in R?

[Hadley Wickham]

This is usually ill-advised, but I think it's the right solution for
your problem:

assignInNamespace("plot.histogram", function(...) plot(1:10), "graphics")
hist(1:10)

Haley

On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 1:14 AM, Tim Hesterberg <timhesterberg at gmail.com> wrote:
> How can I create an improved version of a method in R, and have it be used?
>
> Short version:
> I think plot.histogram has a bug, and I'd like to try a version with a fix.
> But when I call hist(), my fixed version doesn't get used.
>
> Long version:
> hist() calls plot() which calls plot.histogram() which fails to pass ...
> when it calls plot.window().
> As a result hist() ignores xaxs and yaxs arguments.
> I'd like to make my own copy of plot.histogram that passes ... to
> plot.window().
>
> If I just make my own copy of plot.histogram, plot() ignores it, because my
> version is not part of the same graphics package that plot belongs to.
>
> If I copy hist, hist.default and plot, the copies inherit the same
> environments as
> the originals, and behave the same.
>
> If I also change the environment of each to .GlobalEnv, hist.default fails
> in
> a .Call because it cannot find C_BinCount.
>
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