Solved and Question: Problem with S3 method dispatch and NAMESPACE

On Apr 24, 2013, at 15:59 , Frank Harrell wrote:

I found that package quantreg has created a new generic for latex() [I
wish
it hadn't; this has been a generic in Hmisc for almost 2 decades].  When
I
require(quantreg) after loading rms, latex(anova.rms object) dispatches
latex.default, but everything is fine if I don't load quantreg.  rms has
import(Hmisc) in NAMESPACE and is loaded before quantreg, hence the
conflict.  How do I make the generic from Hmisc take precedence?

library(quantreg, pos=x) with suitably large x is one idea.

Thanks
Frank

Frank Harrell wrote

I have updated the rms package to extensively use NAMESPACE.  I cannot
get
certain S3 methods to dispatch.  For example I have in NAMESPACE

S3method(anova, rms)
S3method(latex, anova.rms)

anova.rms produces an object of class "anova.rms" and there is a
latex.anova.rms function in rms.  But when I do latex(anova(fit)) I get
an
invocation of latex.default.

I have tried using "anova.rms" and `anova.rms` in S3method() to no
avail.

Any help appreciated.  I'm using R 2.15.3
Frank

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