[R-pkg-devel] Problems with :::

[David Scott]

I am trying to incorporate a print method for flat tables into the 
package xtable which I maintain.

To format the flat table before printing, I wish to use format.ftable 
from the base package stats.
This is unfortunately not exported, so R CMD check --as-cran produces a 
warning because I access that function using stats:::format.ftable.

So, having read the thread about this problem, I think I should copy the 
function into my package. I do that, and declare format.ftable as an S3 
format method. Now I get a different warning:

Registered S3 method from a standard package overwritten by 'xtable':
  method        from
  format.ftable stats

I am at a loss. Any suggestions?

David Scott

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