[Phylobase-devl] setGeneric vs. setMethod

Ben Bolker bolker at zoology.ufl.edu
Wed Jun 25 15:20:47 CEST 2008


  PDC said:

> Thanks Thibaut for that explanation.  It is all much clearer now, I
> still don't understand what the group argument to setGeneric() does,
> but perhaps I have to find a copy of the green book.
> 
> If there aren't objections at some point I'd like to combine the pile
> of methods and generics we have into single setGeneric() calls.  As I
> mentioned we have a setMethod and setGeneric for hasNodeLabels.  I'll
> do a bit more testing, but is there any reason not to tidy up the code
> in this way?
> 
> Peter

   go for it.

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