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A general description is here.
New low-level function ‘.OBJSXP()’ enables deparsing of non-S4 ‘"object"’ type objects.
In ‘methods’, ‘as()’ now correctly coerces S4 objects to S4
superclasses extending old-style classes, instead of returning only the
S3 part.
‘dummy.coef()’ becomes more robust to non-syntactic variable names, fixing PR#18468. Thanks to Bill Dunlap and ‘R Dev Day’ participants Vincent Arel-Bundock, Cynthia Huang, Tina Rozsos and Marina Marinelli.
‘summary(<aov>)’ for an almost perfect fit now warns analogously to ‘summary(<lm>)’, using the same check. Fixes fixes PR#18341 thanks to ‘R Dev Day @ useR! 2026’ participants Deepansh Khurana, Stefan Linner and Oscar de Leon.
In ‘methods’, ‘as()’ now correctly coerces S4 objects to S4 superclasses extending old-style classes, instead of returning only the S3 part.
New low-level function ‘.OBJSXP()’ enables deparsing of non-S4
‘"object"’ type objects.