Hello,

This is already fixed in r-devel, I think by this commit:

https://github.com/wch/r-source/commit/b59a1526085d1b4375b184d35118c6fd6f003912#diff-12de104c9320556f0e99da345c6fb259
 
<https://github.com/wch/r-source/commit/b59a1526085d1b4375b184d35118c6fd6f003912#diff-12de104c9320556f0e99da345c6fb259>

Best,
Lionel

> On 21 Feb 2019, at 00:07, Dean Attali <daatt...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> This is related to a problem that was fixed in 2015
> https://github.com/wch/r-source/commit/38ea40dcd0353af16d35296ee621338c49ae48c9
> The problem then was that auto-printing by typing an object to the console
> would search for show() in the globalenv instead of in the methods
> namespace.
> 
> The problem I would like to report is that it seems that when an S4 object
> is printed with print(), a similar issue happens. I do realize that S4
> objects should be printed with show() rather than print(), which would
> solve the issue, but this still seems like a bug to me.
> 
> Example:
> 
> library(methods)
> show <- function(...) message("hijacked!")
> setClass("Test", representation(test = "character"))
> test <- new("Test")
> print(test)
> # hijacked!
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