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Hi, I'm very confused about R structures and the methods to go with them. I'm using R for microarray analysis with Bioconductors. Suppose without reading the documentations, what's the best way to explore a data structure when you know nothing about it? I am currently using is() / class() to see what the object is. str() / attributes() to probe inside the object, and

Hi, I get the following error when trying to remove a union class: > setClassUnion('a', c('matrix', 'numeric')) > removeClass('a') > sessionInfo() R version 2.15.3 (2013-03-01) Platform: i686-pc-linux-gnu (32-bit) locale: [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8 [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8

hello, if i load the RSQLite package in addition to the RPostgreSQL package, i get various errors when trying to use RPostgreSQL functions. here is an example transcript showing one such error: ========================================================== R version 2.15.0 (2012-03-30) [...] > packageVersion('RPostgreSQL') [1] 0.3.2 > packageVersion('RSQLite') [1] 0.11.1

(a new thread, on purpose) >>>>> "RobG" == Robert Gentleman <rgentlem at fhcrc.org> >>>>> on Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:55:50 -0700 writes: RobG> Hi, I just committed a change to R-devel so that if RobG> debug is called on an S3 generic function, all methods RobG> will also automatically have debug turned on for them RobG>

Hi, The following question might come from my (deep) misunderstanding of the concepts in the package 'methods'. I have a class 'A', and a class 'B' inheriting 'A' (so defined with 'setClass' and the parameter 'contains="A"'. The class A has a method 'mymethod'. A call to 'showMethods("mymethod")' return the

Hi, S4 method dispatch can be very slow. Would it be reasonable to cache the most recent dispatch, anticipating the next invocation will be on the same type? This would be very helpful in loops. fun0 <- function(x) sapply(x, paste, collapse="+") fun1 <- function(x) { paste <- selectMethod(paste, class(x[[1]])) sapply(x, paste,

Hi, In the situation below the note issued by the dispatch algo doesn't seem right: setClass("A", representation(stuff="complex")) setAs("ANY", "A", function(from) new("A", stuff=as.complex(from))) > as(6, "A") An object of class "A" Slot "stuff": [1] 6+0i > as(6L, "A")

Hi, ExonFeatureSet I have an object of the above class. The following document mentioned it. http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/2.5/bioc/vignettes/oligo/inst/doc/ClassesUsedInOligo.pdf But I would like to see its defintion. I'm wondering if there is a way in R to give me the definition of any class? Regards, Peng

showMethods isn't reporting inherited methods when it is first called. The methods are there and after calling them, showMethods gives the right output. Here is an example (using R-devel r39647): setClass("A", representation(x="numeric"), prototype=list(x=1)) setClass("B", contains="A", prototype=list(x=2))

Hi, First a bit of disclaimer... I haven't isolated this problem into an easy to reproduce case, and I won't be surprised if the root cause is a fault in my code's use of name spaces or some such. The error I'm seeing is one in which the desired method is not found. What worries me in terms of my expectations of how to debug the problem is that showMethods and selectMethod both

(I think this is being caused by the new methods package in RC.) In the RC (March 24) some of my packages are generating a Note Note: Method with signature "MySQLConnection#integer" chosen for function "coerce", target signature "TSMySQLConnection#integer". "dbObjectId#integer" would also be valid This is coming from a call to dbGetQuery() in package

Dear all, I'm getting more and more frustrated with the whole S4 thing and I'm looking for a more advanced summary on how to deal with them. Often I get error messages that don't make sense at all, or the code is not doing what I think it would do. Far too often inspecting the code requires me to go to the source, which doesn't really help in easily finding the bit of code

Hi, I ran into the following peculiarity involving S4 method dispatch and namespaces. I develop a package which have a namespace and which depends on 'pixmap' package, which itself does not have a namespace. Now, in my package I have a class which has a slot for objects from class "pixmap" and I want to have a "plot" method for this new class. Not to clutter the

Hello,   How can I generate an overview/vector of all the methods winthin an S4 class? Similar to dir() in this Python code: >>> class SomeClass():  def some_method_1(self):   pass  def some_method_2(self):   pass   >>> dir(SomeClass) ['__doc__', '__module__', 'some_method_1', 'some_method_2'] >>>   Thanks in advance! Cheers!! Albert-Jan

I see as below, where getGeneric and getMethod imply a different signature; the signature is mode="any" for both cases in R version 3.2.3 Patched (2016-01-28 r70038)I don't know how to reproduce Jeff's error, though. > library(Matrix) > as.vector function (x, mode = "any") .Internal(as.vector(x, mode)) <bytecode: 0xe79f88> <environment:

Hi, I am trying to create a linked list in R by defining a class Node which has a instance variable Node. setClass("Node", representation(rate="numeric", nextNode="ANY")) The above works. But the following gives me a warning message. setClass("Node", representation(rate="numeric", nextNode="Node")) > >

Fine with me as long as eliminating the inconveniences associated with it can be put on the roadmap. The alias instability and the fact that the user has no way to know if s/he should do ?`foo,numeric-method` or ?`foo,numeric,ANY-method` to find the method has been a long-standing problem. H. On 3/21/19 21:29, Michael Lawrence wrote: If we started over, I'd try to avoid this sort of

There seems to be a bug arising when using multiple S4 generics with "..." as the signature. The following code works as expected: ############################################################## > setGeneric("rbind", function(..., deparse.level=1) standardGeneric("rbind"), + signature = "...") Creating a generic for "rbind" in

Hi, I'd like to simply add column-wise using Matrix objects (Csparse). It looks like one can apply mosty any base function to these objects (i.e., apply, colSums), but there is a nasty conversion to traditional matrix objects if one does that. Is there any workaround? I can see colSum listed in the help for Class 'CsparseMatrix' , but I wonder whether I'm using the default

Hi All, I have tried to find an answer within documentation, but I cannot: o How can call a class "slot" without knowing the name a priori? E.g., let's say I use the "pcaMethods" library to create a "pcaRes" object. How can I call parts of that object without using the specific names of the object in the call? example code: library(pcaMethods)