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Hello to everybody I am developing a package using R and have the following problem: I used to work in a mixture of S3 and S4 mechanism environment: as a matter of fact, I used to define my classes (say "DB" for illustration) using the setClass function (with representation field), and I was using the S3 implicit mechanism writing the functions: print.DB and plot.DB. Recently, I

What a delicious example! (I'm taking the liberty of sharing it with r-devel, since it raises some good issues.) You have two questions, presumably: 1 - how could the order of the setMethod calls make a difference in the results? 2 - what's causing the infinite loop & how could it be avoided, reliably? Second question first. The danger sign is the "vector" method:

Full_Name: Bert Gunter Version: 2.1.1 OS: Windows 2000 Submission from: (NULL) (192.12.78.250) There appears to be either a bug or documentation problem in setMethod/setGeneric with how default arguments are handled. The setMethod Help says: ****** Method definitions can have default expressions for arguments. If those arguments are then missing in the call to the generic function, the default

I am developing a S4 class but have had trouble to make setMethod work in Window 7. I tested an example found in the setMethod manual: > require(graphics) > setMethod("plot", signature(x="track", y="missing"), + function(x, y, ...) plot(slot(x, "x"), slot(x, "y"), ...) + ) It gave me: Error in setMethod("plot",

Hi I am having difficulty with setMethod(). I have a "brob" class of objects whose representation has two slots: "x" and "positive". Slot "x" (double) holds the log of a number and slot "positive" (logical) its sign. The idea is that large numbers can be handled. I'm trying to implement a log() method using an analogue of the

Hi, I want to set a default value in a method of a generic function. This seems as though it should be possible. From R help on setMethod... Method definitions can have default expressions for arguments. If those arguments are then missing in the call to the generic function, the default expression in the method is used. If the method definition has no default for the

Hello everybody R version 2.4.0 alpha (2006-09-15 r39323), MacOSX 10.4.7 Next S4 problem. I have "brob" objects that are large real numbers, and now I want "glub" numbers that are to be a pair of glubs that represent complex numbers. I want to define binary operator "+" so that if either the left or right argument are glubs, it uses .ArithGlub. If either

Just wondered about this curious behaviour. I'm trying to learn about classes. Basically setMethod works the first time, but does not seem to work the second time. Faheem. ************************************************************************* setClass("foo", representation(x="numeric")) bar <-

hi. below is a small test case (hopefully minimal, though i'm still a bit confused about initializers). i would have guessed (and maybe i still would have been right) that one could re-use the name of a generic function for functions with different numbers of arguments. in the case below, class A's bB() queries the status of a single A object, so bB(A) (where here "A" is an

Hi In V&R the "polynomial" class is explicitly specified to have no logical operators: setMethod("Logic", signature(e1="polynomial"), function(e1,e2){stop ("...")}) I too have a class of objects for which I want to specify that Logic operators do not work, but executing setClass("brob", representation = representation

Dear all, My apologies for re-posting this question, but I have not found any solution to my problem so far. I also think that my post may have been overseen due to the posting time and high traffic on this list. I experience a problem in implementing a S4 class in a package and would appreciate your help in this matter. The class is implemented using Rcpp, which works well. I then extend

I created some S4 objects that are essentially data frame objects. The S4 object definitions were necessary to verify data integrity and force a standardized data format. I am, however, finding myself redefining all the typical generic functions so that I can still manipulate my S4 objects as if they were data frames ... I have used setMethod to set methods for "subset",

Hi R-helper! I have problem with setMethods for "[". Here is example : setClass("myClass", representation(ID.r = "numeric", ID.c = "character", DAT = "matrix")) to.myClass <- function(ID.r, ID.c, DAT) {     out <- new("myClass", ID.r = ID.r, ID.c = ID.c, DAT = DAT)     retur...

Hi, i have used S4 classes to implement a unified access to random number generators (package rstream on CRAN). I have used a construct to allow optional arguments: if(!isGeneric("rstream.sample")) setGeneric("rstream.sample", function(stream,...) standardGeneric("rstream.sample")) setMethod("rstream.sample",

Dear all, I'm trying to understand the S4 way of object-oriented programming, but I still can't grasp completely what R is doing. I have a class definition for a class called PM10Meteo, and I set a initializer function. next, I include a show method and a print method as shown below. setClass( Class="PM10Meteo",...) # end setClass setMethod

after this setClass("A") setGeneric("bar", function(x, y) standardGeneric("bar")) setMethod(bar, signature(x="A", y="A"), function(x, y) {}) setMethod(bar, signature(x="A", y="ANY"), function(x, y) {}) the method for signature c("A", "A") contains package information > str(getMethod(bar,

I recently encountered this and was wondering if someone could explain what happened. Basis of question involves what the difference between the calls makes as the end result is the same: > identical(matrix(1:8, nrow = 1), array(1:8, c(1, 8))) TRUE If I run the code below as shown, I get the following: > foo(1:8, 4) foo (vector, numeric) val = 4 foo (matrix, ANY) val = 500 foo

I have been running into difficulties with dispatching on an S4 class defined in the SparseM package, when the method calls are inside a function passed as the f= argument to optimize() in functions in the spdep package. The S4 methods are typically defined as: setMethod("det","matrix.csr", function(x, ...) det(chol(x))^2) that is within setMethod() rather than by name before

Hi all, I would like to access the name of a variable passed to an S4 method. For a function, I would do this: f <- function(x) as.character(substitute(x)) This also works for a the examples I have tried for methods that do not have extra, non-dispatch args: setGeneric("A", function(x, ...) standardGeneric("A")) setMethod("A",

Should R CMD check consider it an error to define a new method using setMethod for a class which is not currently defined? It seems to me that it would be best not to consider this an error. What currently happens in that setMethod issues a warning, quite correctly. This warning produces an object 'last.warning'. Then R CMD check issues a WARNING that 'last.warning' is an