On 07/09/2012 2:00 PM, Simon Urbanek wrote:
On Sep 7, 2012, at 12:59 PM, "Warnes, Gregory" <gregory.war...@novartis.com> wrote:> > On 9/7/12 12:55 PM, "Uwe Ligges" <lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de> wrote: > >> On 07.09.2012 17:05, Tim Hesterberg wrote: >>> When creating a package, I would like a way to tell R that >>> a function with a period in its name is not a method. >> >> You can't. There are few exception for historic names (S definitions) >> hardcoded in R. >> > > Would it be possible to add a \notmethod{} decorator to allow package maintainers to avoid these messages? > I would strongly support any solution since it has bitten me as well...
An alternative would be to say that if it's not declared to be a method in the NAMESPACE file, it's not one. I think that would actually be more work though, since it would probably break a lot of packages...
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