title: Overloading R function - is this right?
body: <pre><code>consumeSingleRequest &lt;- function(api_key, URL, columnNames, globalParam="", ...) 
  consumeSingleRequest &lt;- function(api_key, URL, columnNames, valuesList, globalParam="")
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I am trying to overload a function like this, that takes in multiple lists in the first function and combines them into one list of lists. However, I don't seem to be able to skip passing in globalParam and pass in oly the multiple lists in the ...</p>
  
  <p>Does anyone know how to do that?</p>
  
  <p>I've heard S3 methods could be used for that? Does anyone know how?</p>