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2008 Dec 22
2
... (dotMethods) and cbind/rbind: how to give the signature?
Dear List, I'm struggling with the signature writing cbind/rbind functions for a S4 class. First of all, I'm very happy that it is now possible to dispatch on ... I follow the example for "paste" in ?dotMethods, which works as far as this: ### start example setClass ("cbtest", representation = representation (data = "data.frame"), prototype = prototype (data = data.frame (spc = I (matrix (rnorm (15) , 3, 5))) ) ) a <- new ("cbtest") a s...
2012 Sep 12
1
methods cbind2 bind_activation disrupts cbind everywhere
The methods package ?cbind2 includes the instruction to use via methods:::bind_activation(TRUE). This changes the default definition of cbind globally, disrupting proper evaluation in packages not using cbind2. Is cbind2 a hold-over from a time when ... could not be used for dispatch? What is a safe way for a package to use cbind2? This came up in the context of complex package dependencies