similar to: Can "prototype" and "initialize" coexist?

Hello, Thomas Stabla (statho3@web.de) has already sent this question to R-help, Wed, 12 Nov 2003 21:21:31 +0100, but we are not sure whether we should better post this mail to this audience than to R-help: --------------------------------------------------------------------- We are using S4-classes and want to force a validity check when an object is created. How can this be done, when an

Hi, I recently ran into this problem. I couldn't find any mention of it in the setClass documentation. setClass("Foo", representation(file = "character")) setMethod("initialize", "Foo", function(.Object, file) { print(file) }) setClass("Bar", contains = "Foo") And the error: Error in print(file) : argument "file" is

I thought that 'validity' defined in 'setClass' should be called in 'new'. Could somebody let me know why 'validity' is not called? How to make it be called? > setClass( + Class='A', + representation=representation( + x='numeric' + ), + validity=function(object){ + cat("~~~ A: inspector ~~~\n") +

Dear all Below is the code for "scriptPreFilter.R" which gives the following result: > source("scriptPreFilter.R") > prefltr <- new("PreFilter", mad=c(0.5,0.01)) [1] "------initialize:PreFilter------" [1] "------initialize:Filter------" > str(prefltr) Formal class 'PreFilter' [package ".GlobalEnv"] with 2 slots

Dear useRs and wizaRds, I am currently developing a set of functions using S4 classes. On the way I encountered the problem exemplified with the code below. For some reason the 'validity' method does not seem to work, i.e. does not check for errors in the specification of the slots of the defined class. Any hints? My understanding of the whole S4 system was that validity checks are made

Hi, Given a simple three class hierarchy: A <-- B <-- C I want to define an initialize method for each class such that when I call new("C", x=5), the initialize methods for A and B are used to incrementally build the object. When I do what seems obvious to me using callNextMethod, I get an infinite recursion. An example follows... setClass("A",

Hi all, I am having trouble extending S4 classes in cases where I'm using both validity and initialize methods. I've read as much S4 information as I can find, but I've yet to have that "a-ha" moment. In my application, I am using validity methods to guard against inappropriate input data that my code has no way of handling, and initialize methods to detect and deal

Hello list, I'm having troubles setting up a basic calss hierarchy with S4. Here is a simplified schema of what I'd like to do: - Two classes: A and B that extends A - Ensure that the slots added by B are consistent with the slots of A - Let A initialize itself (I'm not supposed to know the internal cooking of A) - By default set the slots of B based on the slots that A initialized

Hello, I am trying to improve my skill on S4 classes. But there's something strange (to me) happening with "initialize" methods. This is probably a normal behaviour... but... something is unclear in my mind I declare two classes, namely "A", and "B", which has a slot of type A. The class "A" has an initialize method. What I do not understand is that

Dear UseRs, Does anyone know when exactly the validity is checked in S4? Documentation is silent:(. Here is a small example: setClass("test1",representation(a="numeric")) setMethod("initialize","test1", function(.Object,...){ a<-runif(1) ## here slot "a" is initialized ## callNextMethod(.Object,a=a,...)

Suppose you have a class, say sex, for lack of a better example, and you are tempted, in defining the behavior of the call, is(x,"sex") to check whether certain basic features are satisfied, not to just trust the claim that x is specified to be of class "sex". `Without delving into details further sanity checking of the structure of the object is sometimes prudent to avoid

Dear all, I am just writing the documentation file for S4 class 'QualTreeSet' and get the following warning with R CMD check: * checking for missing documentation entries ... WARNING Undocumented S4 methods: generic 'initialize' and siglist 'QualTreeSet' All user-level objects in a package (including S4 classes and methods) should have documentation entries. See the

Can someone explain what the problem is when I use the generating function? And how to get debug() to stop in the Superclass initialize method? ---- source ----- setClass("Superclass", representation(id = "character"), contains = "VIRTUAL") setMethod("initialize", signature(.Object = "Superclass"),

Hi there, Problem :: When one tries to change one or some of the columns of a data.frame, R makes a copy of the whole data.frame using the '*tmp*' mechanism (this does not happen for components of a list, tracemem( ) on R-2.6.2 says so). Suggested solution :: Store the columns of the data.frame as a list inside of an environment slot of an S4 class, and define the '[',

Hi all, I am having a problem trying to declare a slot representation to hold a file connection. With V2.8.0 I had been using: setClass("Element", representation( [other slots removed], datafileConn = setOldClass(c("file","connection")) ) ) This resulted in a warning but still ran okay. No however with V2.9.0 I am getting

Hi, I don't understand why this code doesn't work (f(b2)): ///////////////// setClass("B0", representation(b0 = "numeric")) setClass("B1", representation("B0", b1 = "character")) setClass("B2", representation("B1", b2 = "logical")) f <- function(x) class(x) setMethod("f", "B0",

I don't understand why I get the following results. I define two classes 'Base' and 'Derived', the latter of which 'contains' the first. I then define a generic method 'test' and overload it for each of these classes. I call 'callNextMethod()' in the overload for Derived. From the output, it appears that the overload for Base gets called twice. Why is

I have a class that extends array and my method for "[" stops with an error: > setClass("A", contains="array") [1] "A" > setMethod("[", "A", function(x, i, j, ..., drop = TRUE) new("A", callNextMethod())) [1] "[" > a<-new("A",array(1:12,c(4,3,1))) > a An object of class "A" , , 1

Hey everyone, I would like to develop a package using S4 classes. I have to define several S4 classes that inherits from each others as follow: # A <- B <- C <- D I also would like to define .DollarNames methods for these class so, if I have understood well, I also have to define an old class as follow: # AOld <- A <- B <- C <- D setOldClass(Classes = "AOld")

Hi the list. I try to learn the S4 programming. I find the wiki and several doc. But I still have few questions... 1. To define 'representation', we can use two syntax : - representation=list(temps = 'numeric',traj = 'matrix') - representation(temps = 'numeric',traj = 'matrix') Is there any difference ? 2. 'validityMethod' check the