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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>R: generics: common S3 generics</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="R.css" /> </head><body> <table width="100%" summary="page for generics-package {generics}"><tr><td>generics-package {generics}</td><td style="text-align: right;">R Documentation</td></tr></table> <h2>generics: common S3 generics</h2> <h3>Description</h3> <p>These are generic functions that can be used to minimize package dependencies when multiple packages have the same method. </p> <h3>Details</h3> <p>An attempt was made to use generic class signatures that were consistent with existing code. For example, <span class="pkg">dplyr</span> and <span class="pkg">lime</span> both have <code>explain()</code> methods that do very different things but both take <code>x</code> as their main object. Even though <code>x</code> would be different in those cases, this package provides access to the S3 generic so that other packages that may want to create <code>explain()</code> methods for their objects can do so without loading either of the other packages. </p> <p>For example, if a new <code>tidy()</code> method is being developed for a package, this lightweight package can be the required dependency to have access to the generic method (instead of depending on <span class="pkg">broom</span> and installing its dependencies). </p> <h3>Author(s)</h3> <p><strong>Maintainer</strong>: Max Kuhn <a href="mailto:max@rstudio.com">max@rstudio.com</a> </p> <p>Authors: </p> <ul> <li><p> Hadley Wickham <a href="mailto:hadley@rstudio.com">hadley@rstudio.com</a> </p> </li> <li><p> Davis Vaughan <a href="mailto:davis@rstudio.com">davis@rstudio.com</a> </p> </li></ul> <p>Other contributors: </p> <ul> <li><p> RStudio [copyright holder] </p> </li></ul> <h3>See Also</h3> <p>Useful links: </p> <ul> <li> <p><a href="https://github.com/r-lib/generics">https://github.com/r-lib/generics</a> </p> </li> <li><p> Report bugs at <a href="https://github.com/r-lib/generics">https://github.com/r-lib/generics</a> </p> </li></ul> <hr /><div style="text-align: center;">[Package <em>generics</em> version 0.0.2 <a href="00Index.html">Index</a>]</div> </body></html>