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2025 May 11
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Why does format.default skip dispatch for list items?
..., the result is a character vector obtained by applying format.default(x, ...) to each element of the list
One consequence is that we can't add "nice" printing methods for
list-of-object columns in data.frames:
https://github.com/eddelbuettel/rprotobuf/issues/109
library(RProtoBuf)
person_desc <- P("tutorial.Person")
DF <- data.frame(id = 1:2)
DF$person = list(person_desc$new(name = "Me"), person_desc$new(name =
"You", email = "y at u.com"))
DF
# id person
# 1 1 <S4 class ?Message? [pack...