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Dear all, what is the proper way to make the assignment operator generic and define methods depending on the class of the assigned value? Best regards Jens Oehlschl?gel P.S. I vaguely remember that this was possible in S+. In R I tried to no avail: # using this like h<-1:3 gives Error: in `<-.default`(h, 1:3) : invalid (do_set) left-hand side to assignment