On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 11:36 AM, Simon Zehnder <[email protected]> wrote: > Because the signature is always (A,A) or (B,B). Then, as in AB we have A and > B and no relationship between A and B, R chooses the method > lexicographically. The result is as expected: f for A is chosen.
It's not as expected, because it doesn't give a message. From ?Methods: If there is no best match, the selection is ambiguous and a message is printed noting which method was selected (the first method lexicographically in the ordering) and what other methods could have been selected. Hadley -- Chief Scientist, RStudio http://had.co.nz/ ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
