getGenerics is wrong in 1.8.0 alpha (PR#4184)
I have mentioned this several times, and it is still incorrect. So I am submitting a formal bug report. In 1.7.1 in a vanilla session
getGenerics(2)
An object of class "ObjectsWithPackage": Object: "Arith" "Compare" "Complex" "Math2" "Math" "Ops" "Summary" From: "base" "base" "base" "base" "base" "base" "base" Object: "addNextMethod" "body<-" "coerce" "coerce<-" "initialize" "loadMethod" From: "methods" "base" "methods" "methods" "methods" "methods" Object: "show" From: "methods" In 1.8.0 alpha (2003-09-16)
getGenerics(2)
An object of class "ObjectsWithPackage": Object: "Arith" "Compare" "Complex" "Math2" "Math" "Ops" "Summary" From: "base" "base" "base" "base" "base" "base" "base" Object: "addNextMethod" "body<-" "coerce" "coerce<-" "initialize" From: "methods" "methods" "methods" "methods" "methods" Object: "loadMethod" "show" From: "methods" "methods" body<- is incorrectly attributed to "methods", although it originates in base (whereas Compare, Complex and Math2 do not occur in base).
Brian D. Ripley, ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595