library(methods): setMethod with "ANY" fails. (PR#1317)

hb@maths.lth.se wrote:

Full_Name: Henrik Bengtsson
Version: R v1.4.1
OS: WinMe
Submission from: (NULL) (217.208.14.137)

Doing the following

library(methods)
setGeneric("foo", function(x) standardGeneric("foo"))
setMethod("foo", "ANY", function(x) cat(x))

fails with

Error in while (value[n] == "ANY") n <- n - 1 :
        missing value where logical needed

It looks like the line

  while (value[n] == "ANY") n <- n - 1

in the source for matchSignature() should be

  while (n > 0 && value[n] == "ANY") n <- n - 1

FYI: I tried my suggested modification at it seems to work.

Yes, thanks, that's correct.

It had been fixed in r-patched and r-devel, but too late for 1.4.1.

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