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Changes to S4 and S3 method dispatch will support S4 class inheritance for S3 methods, for primitives and via UseMethod() and do better on S3 inheritance per-instance for S4 methods. , if the argument S3methods=TRUE is given to setClass(). S4 method dispatch will use S3 per-object inheritance if S3Class() is set on the object. See ?Methods and the paper referenced there.