diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index ec415e0..9af7694 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ Encoding: UTF-8
 LazyData: true
 Suggests: testthat, vdiffr, roxygen2, knitr, rmarkdown, outbreaks, magrittr
 Imports: stats, utils, incidence, distcrete, ggplot2
-RoxygenNote: 6.0.1
+RoxygenNote: 6.1.0
+Remotes: reconhub/incidence
 URL: http://www.repidemicsconsortium.org/projections
 BugReports: http://github.com/reconhub/projections/issues
diff --git a/NAMESPACE b/NAMESPACE
index 4e82da5..b7e6de4 100644
--- a/NAMESPACE
+++ b/NAMESPACE
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ S3method("[",projections)
 S3method(as.data.frame,projections)
 S3method(as.matrix,projections)
 S3method(cumulate,projections)
-S3method(get_dates,default)
 S3method(get_dates,projections)
 S3method(plot,projections)
 S3method(print,projections)
@@ -15,4 +14,5 @@ export(get_dates)
 export(project)
 importFrom(graphics,plot)
 importFrom(incidence,cumulate)
+importFrom(incidence,get_dates)
 importFrom(stats,as.ts)
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 2020682..d0452d0 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+# projections 0.3.1
+
+ - `get_dates()` now inherits the generic `get_dates()` from incidence
+
 # projections 0.3.0
 
 ## New features
diff --git a/R/accessors.R b/R/accessors.R
index e464b57..56bfcb9 100644
--- a/R/accessors.R
+++ b/R/accessors.R
@@ -7,12 +7,11 @@
 #'  \item \code{get_dates}: get dates of the predictions.
 #'
 #' }
-#'
+#' @name get_dates
 #' @rdname projections_accessors
 #'
 #' @author Thibaut Jombart \email{thibautjombart@@gmail.com}
 #'
-#' @export
 #'
 #' @param x A \code{projections} object.
 #'
@@ -21,7 +20,7 @@
 #' @examples
 #'
 #'
-#' if (require(distcrete) && require(incidence)) {
+#' if (require(distcrete) && require(incidence)) { withAutoprint({
 #'
 #' ## prepare input: epicurve and serial interval
 #' dat <- c(0, 2, 2, 3, 3, 5, 5, 5, 6, 6, 6, 6)
@@ -40,28 +39,12 @@
 #' get_dates(pred_1)
 #' max(i$dates) # predictions start 1 day after last incidence
 #'
-#' }
-#'
-
-get_dates <- function(x, ...) {
-    UseMethod("get_dates", x)
-}
-
-
-#' @rdname projections_accessors
-#' @export
-#' @aliases get_dates.default
-
-get_dates.default <- function(x, ...) {
-    stop(sprintf("Not implemented for class %s",
-                 paste(class(x), collapse = ", ")))
-}
-
-
-#' @rdname projections_accessors
-#' @export
+#' })}
 #' @aliases get_dates.projections
-
+#' @aliases get_dates
+#' @importFrom incidence get_dates
+#' @export get_dates
+#' @export
 get_dates.projections <- function(x, ...) {
     attr(x, "dates")
 }
diff --git a/man/plot.projections.Rd b/man/plot.projections.Rd
index 4f6f14b..28f7b98 100644
--- a/man/plot.projections.Rd
+++ b/man/plot.projections.Rd
@@ -7,11 +7,11 @@
 \usage{
 \method{plot}{projections}(x, ...)
 
-add_projections(p, x, quantiles = c(0.01, 0.05, 0.1, 0.5), ribbon = TRUE,
-  boxplots = FALSE, palette = quantile_pal, quantiles_alpha = 1,
-  linetype = 1, linesize = 0.5, ribbon_quantiles = NULL,
-  ribbon_color = NULL, ribbon_alpha = 0.3, boxplots_color = "#47476b",
-  boxplots_alpha = 0.8, outliers = TRUE)
+add_projections(p, x, quantiles = c(0.01, 0.05, 0.1, 0.5),
+  ribbon = TRUE, boxplots = FALSE, palette = quantile_pal,
+  quantiles_alpha = 1, linetype = 1, linesize = 0.5,
+  ribbon_quantiles = NULL, ribbon_color = NULL, ribbon_alpha = 0.3,
+  boxplots_color = "#47476b", boxplots_alpha = 0.8, outliers = TRUE)
 }
 \arguments{
 \item{x}{A \code{projections} object.}
diff --git a/man/projections_accessors.Rd b/man/projections_accessors.Rd
index 878fe02..3717803 100644
--- a/man/projections_accessors.Rd
+++ b/man/projections_accessors.Rd
@@ -2,14 +2,9 @@
 % Please edit documentation in R/accessors.R
 \name{get_dates}
 \alias{get_dates}
-\alias{get_dates.default}
 \alias{get_dates.projections}
 \title{Access content projections objects}
 \usage{
-get_dates(x, ...)
-
-\method{get_dates}{default}(x, ...)
-
 \method{get_dates}{projections}(x, ...)
 }
 \arguments{
@@ -30,7 +25,7 @@ objects. They currently include:
 \examples{
 
 
-if (require(distcrete) && require(incidence)) {
+if (require(distcrete) && require(incidence)) { withAutoprint({
 
 ## prepare input: epicurve and serial interval
 dat <- c(0, 2, 2, 3, 3, 5, 5, 5, 6, 6, 6, 6)
@@ -49,8 +44,7 @@ pred_1
 get_dates(pred_1)
 max(i$dates) # predictions start 1 day after last incidence
 
-}
-
+})}
 }
 \author{
 Thibaut Jombart \email{thibautjombart@gmail.com}
diff --git a/man/subset.Rd b/man/subset.Rd
index ee98df0..a1a06f0 100644
--- a/man/subset.Rd
+++ b/man/subset.Rd
@@ -9,7 +9,8 @@
 \usage{
 \method{[}{projections}(x, i, j)
 
-\method{subset}{projections}(x, ..., from = NULL, to = NULL, sim = TRUE)
+\method{subset}{projections}(x, ..., from = NULL, to = NULL,
+  sim = TRUE)
 }
 \arguments{
 \item{x}{An projections object, generated by the function