Mailing list now included (apologies, first time I post anything so not quite sure how it works). You are quite right, it was a typo. I meant to write that plot.xmean.ordinaly(). So please let me correct my last statement: the plot.xmean.ordinaly() command and plot() command are interchangeable as long as x is an object x of class "xmean.ordinaly", and plot.xmean.ordinaly() is best used if the object is not of class "xmean.ordinaly" or if you are unsure what class it it. Is this a correct encapsulation? On Sun, 17 Mar 2019 at 14:38, Jeff Newmiller <jdnewmil at dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote:> Please keep the mailing list included in the thread. > > I can't tell if you do understand and are just being sloppy, or if you are > completely confused, because xmean.ordinaly() and plot.xmean.ordinaly() are > two completely different symbols in R. > > As for being "safe"... you may choose to be specific or not, but plot and > plot.xmean.ordinaly are both equally "safe" to call, and being too specific > can cause problems sometimes as well. > > On March 17, 2019 6:40:10 AM PDT, Kim Jacobsen <kimsjacobsen at gmail.com> > wrote: > >Dear Jeff, > > > >Thank you so much! So if I understand the S3 object documents > >correctly, > >the xmean.ordinaly() command and plot() command are interchangeable as > >long > >as x is an object x of class "xmean.ordinaly"? So would I be right to > >think > >that I might as well just xmean.ordinaly() to be safe? > > > >Many thanks, > > > > > > > >On Sun, 17 Mar 2019 at 02:08, Jeff Newmiller <jdnewmil at dcn.davis.ca.us> > >wrote: > > > >> Read up on S3 object orientation[1]. If you have an object x of class > >> "xmean.ordinaly" then writing > >> > >> plot(x) > >> > >> will end up invoking the plot.xmean.ordinaly function rather than the > >> plot.default function in base graphics. This is broadly true > >throughout R. > >> > >> [1] http://adv-r.had.co.nz/S3.html > >> > >> On March 16, 2019 11:03:06 AM PDT, Kim Jacobsen > ><kimsjacobsen at gmail.com> > >> wrote: > >> >Would anyone be able to explain what the difference is between > >> >plot.xmean.ordinaly and plot() in the "rms" package? (for the > >purposes > >> >of > >> >testing the proportional odds assumption in ordinal models). In the > >> >package > >> >document (https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rms/rms.pdf) they > >> >seem > >> >both to be used interchangeably. > >> > > >> >Thank you! > >> > >> -- > >> Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. > >> > > -- > Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. >-- Kim Solve Jacobsen PhD candidate, Wildlife Conservation Research Unit University of Oxford Recanati-Kaplan Centre OX13 5QL Oxford, UK [image: Image result for oxford logo] [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
No. Do not call plot.xmean.ordinaly() if the argument is not of class xmean.ordinaly, because that function assumes that it is such an object. That is one reason why it is better to call plot() than to be more specific. On March 19, 2019 3:29:11 PM PDT, Kim Jacobsen <kimsjacobsen at gmail.com> wrote:>Mailing list now included (apologies, first time I post anything so not >quite sure how it works). > >You are quite right, it was a typo. I meant to write that >plot.xmean.ordinaly(). So please let me correct my last statement: the >plot.xmean.ordinaly() command and plot() command are interchangeable as >long as x is an object x of class "xmean.ordinaly", and >plot.xmean.ordinaly() is best used if the object is not of class >"xmean.ordinaly" or if you are unsure what class it it. Is this a >correct >encapsulation? > > >On Sun, 17 Mar 2019 at 14:38, Jeff Newmiller <jdnewmil at dcn.davis.ca.us> >wrote: > >> Please keep the mailing list included in the thread. >> >> I can't tell if you do understand and are just being sloppy, or if >you are >> completely confused, because xmean.ordinaly() and >plot.xmean.ordinaly() are >> two completely different symbols in R. >> >> As for being "safe"... you may choose to be specific or not, but plot >and >> plot.xmean.ordinaly are both equally "safe" to call, and being too >specific >> can cause problems sometimes as well. >> >> On March 17, 2019 6:40:10 AM PDT, Kim Jacobsen ><kimsjacobsen at gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >Dear Jeff, >> > >> >Thank you so much! So if I understand the S3 object documents >> >correctly, >> >the xmean.ordinaly() command and plot() command are interchangeable >as >> >long >> >as x is an object x of class "xmean.ordinaly"? So would I be right >to >> >think >> >that I might as well just xmean.ordinaly() to be safe? >> > >> >Many thanks, >> > >> > >> > >> >On Sun, 17 Mar 2019 at 02:08, Jeff Newmiller ><jdnewmil at dcn.davis.ca.us> >> >wrote: >> > >> >> Read up on S3 object orientation[1]. If you have an object x of >class >> >> "xmean.ordinaly" then writing >> >> >> >> plot(x) >> >> >> >> will end up invoking the plot.xmean.ordinaly function rather than >the >> >> plot.default function in base graphics. This is broadly true >> >throughout R. >> >> >> >> [1] http://adv-r.had.co.nz/S3.html >> >> >> >> On March 16, 2019 11:03:06 AM PDT, Kim Jacobsen >> ><kimsjacobsen at gmail.com> >> >> wrote: >> >> >Would anyone be able to explain what the difference is between >> >> >plot.xmean.ordinaly and plot() in the "rms" package? (for the >> >purposes >> >> >of >> >> >testing the proportional odds assumption in ordinal models). In >the >> >> >package >> >> >document (https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rms/rms.pdf) >they >> >> >seem >> >> >both to be used interchangeably. >> >> > >> >> >Thank you! >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. >> >> >> >> -- >> Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. >>-- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.
Please study the documentation to which you were referred. This list is not appropriate for comprehensive tutorials, which is what you need, although all help is of course in some sense a tutorial. Bert Gunter "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and sticking things into it." -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip ) On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 6:30 AM Kim Jacobsen <kimsjacobsen at gmail.com> wrote:> Mailing list now included (apologies, first time I post anything so not > quite sure how it works). > > You are quite right, it was a typo. I meant to write that > plot.xmean.ordinaly(). So please let me correct my last statement: the > plot.xmean.ordinaly() command and plot() command are interchangeable as > long as x is an object x of class "xmean.ordinaly", and > plot.xmean.ordinaly() is best used if the object is not of class > "xmean.ordinaly" or if you are unsure what class it it. Is this a correct > encapsulation? > > > On Sun, 17 Mar 2019 at 14:38, Jeff Newmiller <jdnewmil at dcn.davis.ca.us> > wrote: > > > Please keep the mailing list included in the thread. > > > > I can't tell if you do understand and are just being sloppy, or if you > are > > completely confused, because xmean.ordinaly() and plot.xmean.ordinaly() > are > > two completely different symbols in R. > > > > As for being "safe"... you may choose to be specific or not, but plot and > > plot.xmean.ordinaly are both equally "safe" to call, and being too > specific > > can cause problems sometimes as well. > > > > On March 17, 2019 6:40:10 AM PDT, Kim Jacobsen <kimsjacobsen at gmail.com> > > wrote: > > >Dear Jeff, > > > > > >Thank you so much! So if I understand the S3 object documents > > >correctly, > > >the xmean.ordinaly() command and plot() command are interchangeable as > > >long > > >as x is an object x of class "xmean.ordinaly"? So would I be right to > > >think > > >that I might as well just xmean.ordinaly() to be safe? > > > > > >Many thanks, > > > > > > > > > > > >On Sun, 17 Mar 2019 at 02:08, Jeff Newmiller <jdnewmil at dcn.davis.ca.us> > > >wrote: > > > > > >> Read up on S3 object orientation[1]. If you have an object x of class > > >> "xmean.ordinaly" then writing > > >> > > >> plot(x) > > >> > > >> will end up invoking the plot.xmean.ordinaly function rather than the > > >> plot.default function in base graphics. This is broadly true > > >throughout R. > > >> > > >> [1] http://adv-r.had.co.nz/S3.html > > >> > > >> On March 16, 2019 11:03:06 AM PDT, Kim Jacobsen > > ><kimsjacobsen at gmail.com> > > >> wrote: > > >> >Would anyone be able to explain what the difference is between > > >> >plot.xmean.ordinaly and plot() in the "rms" package? (for the > > >purposes > > >> >of > > >> >testing the proportional odds assumption in ordinal models). In the > > >> >package > > >> >document (https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rms/rms.pdf) they > > >> >seem > > >> >both to be used interchangeably. > > >> > > > >> >Thank you! > > >> > > >> -- > > >> Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. > > >> > > > > -- > > Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. > > > > > -- > Kim Solve Jacobsen > PhD candidate, Wildlife Conservation Research Unit > University of Oxford > Recanati-Kaplan Centre > OX13 5QL Oxford, UK > > [image: Image result for oxford logo] > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >[[alternative HTML version deleted]]
Dear Kim See inline On 19/03/2019 22:29, Kim Jacobsen wrote:> Mailing list now included (apologies, first time I post anything so not > quite sure how it works). > > You are quite right, it was a typo. I meant to write that > plot.xmean.ordinaly(). So please let me correct my last statement: the > plot.xmean.ordinaly() command and plot() command are interchangeable as > long as x is an object x of class "xmean.ordinaly", and > plot.xmean.ordinaly() is best used if the object is not of class > "xmean.ordinaly" or if you are unsure what class it it. Is this a correct > encapsulation? >I think the best way to think about it is that plot() looks at whatever you gave it to plot and then looks at all the plot methods it knows about to see if it has one which matches the class of whatever you gave it. It then uses that one. In general unless you know you need to override that behaviour you should never need to explicitly use any of the other plot methods. The same applies to all the other methods like print() summary() and so on. Michael> > On Sun, 17 Mar 2019 at 14:38, Jeff Newmiller <jdnewmil at dcn.davis.ca.us> > wrote: > >> Please keep the mailing list included in the thread. >> >> I can't tell if you do understand and are just being sloppy, or if you are >> completely confused, because xmean.ordinaly() and plot.xmean.ordinaly() are >> two completely different symbols in R. >> >> As for being "safe"... you may choose to be specific or not, but plot and >> plot.xmean.ordinaly are both equally "safe" to call, and being too specific >> can cause problems sometimes as well. >> >> On March 17, 2019 6:40:10 AM PDT, Kim Jacobsen <kimsjacobsen at gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> Dear Jeff, >>> >>> Thank you so much! So if I understand the S3 object documents >>> correctly, >>> the xmean.ordinaly() command and plot() command are interchangeable as >>> long >>> as x is an object x of class "xmean.ordinaly"? So would I be right to >>> think >>> that I might as well just xmean.ordinaly() to be safe? >>> >>> Many thanks, >>> >>> >>> >>> On Sun, 17 Mar 2019 at 02:08, Jeff Newmiller <jdnewmil at dcn.davis.ca.us> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Read up on S3 object orientation[1]. If you have an object x of class >>>> "xmean.ordinaly" then writing >>>> >>>> plot(x) >>>> >>>> will end up invoking the plot.xmean.ordinaly function rather than the >>>> plot.default function in base graphics. This is broadly true >>> throughout R. >>>> >>>> [1] http://adv-r.had.co.nz/S3.html >>>> >>>> On March 16, 2019 11:03:06 AM PDT, Kim Jacobsen >>> <kimsjacobsen at gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>>> Would anyone be able to explain what the difference is between >>>>> plot.xmean.ordinaly and plot() in the "rms" package? (for the >>> purposes >>>>> of >>>>> testing the proportional odds assumption in ordinal models). In the >>>>> package >>>>> document (https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rms/rms.pdf) they >>>>> seem >>>>> both to be used interchangeably. >>>>> >>>>> Thank you! >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. >>>> >> >> -- >> Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. >> > >-- Michael http://www.dewey.myzen.co.uk/home.html