On Mon, 21 Nov 2005, Seth Falcon wrote: > The Writing R Extensions manual instructs developers who use S4 > classes and methods in a package with a name space to: > > There needs to be an .onLoad action to ensure that the methods package > is loaded and attached: > > .onLoad <- function(lib, pkg) require(methods) > > I'm wondering if listing methods in the Depends field of the package's > DESCRIPTION file is sufficient. My understanding is that doing so > will result in the methods package being loaded and attached.
Using DCF Depends provides same service and better documents the external dependency. The manual should reflect this. ---------------------------------------------------------- SIGSIG -- signature too long (core dumped) ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
