truncate
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Paul Gilbert wrote:
I see in the devel snapshot there is a new generic method
truncate
function (con, ...)
UseMethod("truncate")
which conflicts with a generic method in one of my packages:
truncate
function (x, start = NULL, end = NULL)
{
UseMethod("truncate")
}
I don't think there is a problem, but there used to be a recommendation to use the
same name for the first argument in generic and specific methods. Is that still
important?
It is desirable in R, important in S, essential in S-PLUS 6.0. There is already a truncate function in Rstreams, BTW, which this is intended to supersede. That (and that in R-devel) do mean the same as the system call truncate(3c), which I guess yours does not.
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