Hi, According to seq_along man page, 'seq_along(x)' is equivalent to 'seq_len(length(x))' but apparently not if 'x' is an S4 object with a defined "length" method: > seq_along(letters[11:15]) [1] 1 2 3 4 5 > setClass("A", representation(titi="character")) [1] "A" > setMethod("length", "A", function(x) length(x at titi)) [1] "length" > a <- new("A", titi=letters[11:15]) > length(a) [1] 5 > seq_along(a) [1] 1 Thanks! H.