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Dear colleagues, there is a behaviour with S4 (virtual) classes that I find very hard to understand: Depending on the position of setAs(), the tree of inheritance changes. This is my baseline example that defines the classes "grandma", "mother", "daughter" and a virtual class "mr_x". For a new instance if "daughter", "mr_x" is betweeen

...lass "mr_y", directly Class "grandma", by class "mother", distance 2 > setClass("grandma2", slots = c(a = "character")) > setClass("mother2", slots = c(b = "matrix"), contains = "grandma2") > setClass("daughter2", slots = c(c = "list"), contains = "mother2") > setClassUnion(name = "mr_y2", members = c("daughter2", "mother2")) > setClassUnion(name = "mr_x2", members = c("daughter2", "mother2")) > getClass("...

...NULL 273 4236 1 49410 281 4163 1 49408 274 4226 1 49406 295 3869 2 49403 49404 287 4113 0 NULL 295 3871 1 49401 292 3895 4 49396 49397 49398 49399 291 3900 3 49392 How to read it into R and transform it like that: father mother num_daughter daughter1 daughter2 daughter3 daughter4 291 3906 0 NULL 275 4219 0 NULL 273 4236 1 49410 281 4163 1 49408 274 4226 1 49406 295 3869 2 49403 49404 287 4113 0 NULL 295 3871 1 49401 292 3895 4 49396 49397 49398 49399 291 3900 3 49392 library (plyr) and library (reshape2) and other good packages are OK f...