On 9 Sep 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have written a whole bunch of methods for objects of class > "octonion". > > So far I've done about a dozen generic functions such as > seq.octonion(), rep.octonion(), [<-.octonion(), and so on and so on. > > Very nearly all of these functions are applicable to objects of > class "quaternion".
One solution would be to define a common base class (perhaps nionBase? ;-) and put the common methods there. So in S3 I guess you'd have an Im.nionBase function and your octonions and quaternions would be subclasses of nionBase. > (x))" but would be otherwise identical. A similar story holds for > each of maybe twenty generic functions. Nearly all the Rd files are > similarly identical: the word "octonion" replaces the word > "octonion". I suppose "A" changes to "An" as well. If you document the generics for the base class, I think that would work. Otherwise, find/replace. > There is a small number of functions and datasets that are specific > to octonions. > > What is Best Practice in this situation? I don't want to edit two > separate > packages in tandem. Is there a mechanism for doing what I want > in the context of a bundle? If they need to be in separate packages, perhaps you have three packages: nionBase quaternion (depends on nionBase) etc. HTH, + seth ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel