[ESS] ess-developer

[Vitalie Spinu]

Kevin, 

Is there a way to reproduce your problem with one of the S3
methods/generics in default R packages?

I am not using S3 myself and, quite frankly, I have already forgotten
the exact caching mechanism of S3 methods. Also this mechanism might
have been changed in 3.0.0, so a reproducible example would be very much
welcome.

Thanks, 
    Vitalie



 >> Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit at gmail.com>
 >> on Sun, 21 Apr 2013 14:01:55 +0200 wrote:

 >> Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch>
 >> on Sat, 20 Apr 2013 18:02:29 +0200 wrote:

 >> On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 1:38 AM, Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit at gmail.com> wrote:
 >> 
 >> As long as the two copies are the same, it should not matter for
 >> anything. Why does that bother you specifically?
 >> 

 >> Well, I think it should be bothering a bit.  It invalidates the principle
 >> that using ESS, from the point of view of R, is as much as possible like
 >> using R outside ESS  .. only better, of course.

 > This is how R works. It keeps several copies of a function on some
 > occasions. S3 is one of those.

 >     Vitalie