[Rd] s4 generic issue

2009-11-04 Thread Roger Koenker
I'm hoping that someone with deeper insight into S4 than I, that is to say virtually everyone reading this list, could help resolve the following problem in SparseM. We have setGeneric(backsolve, function(r, x, k = NULL, upper.tri = NULL, transpose = NULL, twice = TRUE, ...)

Re: [Rd] s4 generic issue

2009-11-04 Thread John Chambers
If you mean us to run the code you supplied: 1. There are two generic backsolve() functions, one in the gobal environment and one in SparseM: showMethods(backsolve) Function: backsolve (package .GlobalEnv) r=ANY r=matrix (inherited from: r=ANY) showMethods(SparseM::backsolve) Function: