similar to: Questions about S4 style methods and generics

i believe the following is true but would appreciate confirmation that it is intended behavior and will continue: if a default argument is employed in the definition of a generic function, and the generic is called with the argument in question (call it 'ARG') missing, then the method for signature (..., ARG = "missing", ...) will be called by 'standardGeneric'

Hello everyone, I encountered the following confusing behavior of 'deparse' and 'substitute' while programming with S4 classes (see example below). It seems like the presence of '...' argument in the definition of the generic generates the problem. I have no clue why, can anyone explain that to me? Are there any "workarounds"? Thanks a lot for your time!

please see the code below. foo2 fails to dispatch correctly, but foo does fine. i have tried 'cacheMetaData(1)' and a number of different variants of 'cacheGenericsMetaData', on the possibility there is a caching issue. but i still can't sort it out. also one general question: does it really matter what's in the body of the function definition in a

Hi, while playing with the `methods' package I was not able to find what the recommended way of dealing with the following problem is. Suppose there is a generic function `foo' and two functions `foo.default' and `foo.formula', in the classical way: foo <- function(y, ...) UseMethod("foo") foo.default <- function(y, ...) {} foo.formula <- function(formula,

Hello all, I'd like to report a problem related to S4 classes. Platform: Mac G4/400 PCI (PPC-architecture) Mac OS 10.4.8 R 2.4.1 for Mac OS X (CRAN binary, 2006-12-19) w/ R.app 1.18 Last December, Simon Urbanek confirmed that the issue is not platform related, and that it is most likely a bug. He suggested to post my report to "the appropriate mailing list" -- I choose r-devel.

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 the list When two setGeneric occurs on the same function, the second erage the first and erase all the function previously define. Is it possible to prevent that ? Is it possible to declare a setGeneric that can not be erased later ? Something like the |sealed for setMethod...| || |Thanks| || Christophe

I've installed R-devel R Under development (unstable) (2014-07-09 r66111) Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin13.1.0 (64-bit) and am trying to resolve some problems that I am seeing with my SparseM package. In prior versions I explicitly had: setGeneric("image", function(x, ...) standardGeneric("image")) and then used setMethod to define a method for the class matrix.csr but

Hello. This question concerns the Methods package. I have created a new class and am trying to set a method for it for S4 group generic "Summary". I have run into some signature problems. An example: > setClass("track", representation(x="numeric", y="character")) [1] "track" > setGeneric("max", group="Summary")

Hi. I am having difficulty following section 1.6.6 of the R-extensions manual. I am trying to update the Brobdingnag package to include a NAMESPACE file (the untb package requires the Brobdingnag package). Without the NAMESPACE file, the package passes R CMD check cleanly. However, if I include a NAMESPACE file, even an empty one, R CMD check gives the following error in 00install.out:

Hi, I need to write a function that would look something like this: S <- function(b=betas){ expression(b[1] * f(b[2] * x * f(b[3] * x * f(...b[n-1] * x * f(b[n] * x)))...) } Where n is the number of element in b. Further I need to be able to evaluate S at some x numerically of course and I need to use "deriv" and produce dS/dx such that I can evaluate it also at some x. I

Some quick questions about S4 methods. Does the typing of S4 methods mean that lazy evaluation is no longer possible? It seems that you would need to evaluate the arguments to determine their type at dispatch. Second, what role, if any, do default arguments play in S4 methods? I notice that you can put default arguments into generics but that the dispatch is still done on the type of the

My question has two parts. The first is with regard to the frame or environment in which generic functions are defined in packages. It seems as though they are defined (i.e. exist as objects) in frame 1, even when defined in a package. The following is a short example: setClass("track",representation(x="numeric",y="numeric")) plotTrack <- function(x,y,...)

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",

Hi, I'm doing a k-means cluster with 6 clusters and 15 variables. Any suggestions on how to plot the results? I've tried the standard xy plot, but couldn't get much of it. Thansk in advance, Iuri.

Dear list, I'm trying to write a class for Gaussian error propagation of measured values and their (estimated) errors, > setClass("sec", representation(val="numeric", err="numeric")) I've already successfully implemented basic arithmetics using mostly the "Arith" group generics. But I'm running into trouble when trying to get signif() to

Hi, I found the following on Windows 2000/NT R Version 1.9.1 (2004-06-21) (also Version 1.9.0): The S4 group "Math" doesn't work as documented; i.e., "log", "log10", "gamma" and "lgamma" are included in the documentation but don't work. See example code below. Moreover, what about 'genericForPrimitive' which is used in

Hello, If the signature of a method defines which generic it implements then I'm confused about why this minimal example I invented won't work : setGeneric("myFun", function(rs, ...){standardGeneric("myFun")}) setGeneric("myFun", function(cs, ...){standardGeneric("myFun")}) setMethod("myFun", "numeric", function(rs, colour =

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 I want to create a new generic method, but I end up with an error (evaluation nested too deeply). see the transcript below. The function beginYear.Fun() works, but not beginYear. I have no idea why. Any ideas welcome, Rainer > setClass("fun", representation(x = "numeric")) [1] "fun" > new("fun") An object of class ?fun? Slot "x":