I have successfully redefined utils::View as a generic function so that I can use it my package. However, it so happens that RStudio also defines some kind of hook on this function.
Before loading my package, I see:
> View
function (...)
.rs.callAs(name, hook, original, ...)
<environment: 0x000001f74d5ff0b0>
And looking for that .rs.callAs function, I get:
> findFunction('.rs.callAs')
[[1]]
<environment: 0x000001f74eb94598>
attr(,"name")
[1] "tools:rstudio"
After loading my package, I see:
> View
standardGeneric for "View" defined from package "summarytools"
function (...)
standardGeneric("View")
<bytecode: 0x000001f752ecb7e0>
<environment: 0x000001f754a8e678>
Methods may be defined for arguments: ...
Use showMethods("View") for currently available ones.
Since tools:rstudio is not directly visible, I'm not sure there's anything I can do about it. And if I can somehow include its definition in my package, I'm not sure at all that I can redefine View differently depending on whether the R session is running in RStudio or not.
I'm clearly not very optimistic about this, but I thought of asking here before giving up!
