similar to: UseMethod change; isas-tests; all.equal

1. UseMethod (via usemethod in objects.c) now uses the definition of class() to dispatch, with the methods package attached (dataClass(x)) and without (attr(x, "class")). Packages using a construction of the form if(is.null(class(x))) class(x) <- data.class(x) UseMethod("foo") should now get similar dispatch with the methods package attached. 2. all.equal and some of its

The current r-devel (aka R 1.7.0) now attaches the package "methods" by default at startup. A new option, "defaultPackages", is set to c("methods", "ctest") by default, causing the .First in package base to require those two packages at startup. There are two main known differences from having methods attached: - the definition of class() changes, in

Right. The methods such as as.data.frame.numeric don't get dispatched, basically because RSMethods tries to interpret class(x) in the S4 sense (so, e.g. a numeric vector has class "numeric"). Problems can then come from different semantics for S3-style and S4-style methods. The older methods don't dispatch on the mode of vectors (or equivalently, on the value of

The r-devel (1.4) code has C implementations now of the class and class<- functions in package methods, and also of as.environment. The last brings up a question (it shows up in the isas-tests test suite). as.environment(NULL) is NULL. Seems like it has to be, since NULL is the environment associated with package:base. But is.environment(NULL) is FALSE, which is also fairly natural, if we

I have been trying out R-1.6.0 tarballs (2002-9-10 and 2002-9-17) on: arch sparc os solaris2.8 system sparc, solaris2.8 status beta major 1 minor 6.0 year 2002 month 09 day 17 language R As you see form above, R-1.6.0 compiles fine and works. However, when I "make fullcheck" I get the following error: running code in 'tools-Ex.R' ... OK

Some fixes have been made to check a few errors better & to report something like the correct error message in other cases. - setMethod will now refuse to set a method for a primitive function for a basic class ("[<-" for "matrix", for example). Previously the method was set but never dispatched. (For a few days, the change prohibited some valid methods for operators,

hi,usRs,i am studing the R programming,but i can not get the point abut the difference between UseMethod and NextMehod.i have read the manual and try to find the solutin from internet,but i still not master it well.so anyone can give me a guide?it will be better to show some examples . thank you !

Full_Name: Mike Kay Version: R-patched OS: Linux Submission from: (NULL) (137.75.70.37) Hi, The following patch cleans up some grammar in the docs for UseMethod (library/base/help/UseMethod) -mike --- UseMethod 2005-09-28 20:06:39.000000000 +0000 +++ /tmp/UseMethod 2005-10-31 21:21:05.534708720 +0000 @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Description: R possesses a simple generic function mechanism

I raised the questions below a couple of months ago by sending it to the developers mailing list, but I don't know if it got through since no one replied to it. Looking at the [R] distribution, the UseMethod() is used in the following way: alias <- function(object, ...) UseMethod("alias") or barplot <- function(height, ...) UseMethod("barplot") What I

Dear R developers, I will ask a very straightforward question concerning UseMethod's future, because people depending on my code wonder what will happen to it next. In R v2.0.1 NEWS it says o The undocumented use of UseMethod() with no argument is now formally deprecated. and in the R v2.0.1 help(UseMethod) it says 'UseMethod' accepts a call with no arguments and tries to

I'm having difficulty with Rprof. I have a documentation example test.qss that runs fine without profiling, but under Rprof, > Rprof() > source("test.qss") Error in standardGeneric("model.matrix") : UseMethod used in an inappropriate fashion Luke wrote about a similar circumstance last summer: # From: Luke Tierney (luke@stat.umn.edu) # Date: Fri Jul

match the argument 'x' if there is another argument with prefix 'x' Full_Name: Henrik Bengtsson Version: 1.3.1 OS: Sun Solaris 8 Submission from: (NULL) (130.235.3.49) I ran into a strange problem with UseMethod(). Run the following code: foo.Bar <- function(this, x=0, xidx=0) { cat("In foo.Bar(): ", this, ", x=", x, ", xidx=", xidx,

UseMethod has since the beginning had the 'feature' that local variables in the generic are added to the environment in which the method body is evaluated. This is documented in ?UseMethod and R-lang.texi, but use of this 'feature' has been explicitly discouraged in R-lang.texi for many years. This is an unfortunate design decision for a number of reasons (see below), so the plan

I'd like to suggest that whenever there is no S3 method implementation available for a particular class, that the error message would also report the class structure of the object dispatched on. Example: foo <- function(...) UseMethod("foo") foo.ClassA <- function(object, ...) { cat("foo() for ClassA called.\n") } > foo(structure(1, class="ClassA"))

If I do > example(lm) ... > mycoef <- function(object, ...) UseMethod("coef", object) > mycoef(lm.D9) Error in mycoef(lm.D9) : no applicable method for "coef" which is pretty surprising, as coef has a default method. After a bit of digging, this comes from do_usemethod having defenv = environment where the generic was defined */ defenv =

Hi, The 2 man pages give inconsistent description of class(): Found in ?class: If the object does not have a class attribute, it has an implicit class, ?"matrix"?, ?"array"? or the result of ?mode(x)? (except that integer vectors have implicit class ?"integer"?). Found in ?UseMethod: Matrices and arrays have class ?"matrix"?

The current version of the methods package now has a namespace. Packages using S4 methods and classes can have NAMESPACE files. New directives can be included in NAMESPACE files to import and export classes and methods. Namespaces allow cleaner definition of the API for packages, and are needed for future improvements to R. NOTE: This is a major revision. In principle, it should be back

>> One clear moral seems to be don't do anything more inside a >> generic function than you really need to do. Keep it *very* >> simple indeed. >> > I recall JMC saying something like, all generic functions > should be one line long; a call to the appropriate UseMethod. It certainly is encouraging to know that others also have been confused by aspects of

Hello, is the following somehow possible with Mod() being a primitive: "Mod" <- function(x) UseMethod("Mod") "Mod.default" <- function(x) { .Primitive("Mod") ### I know it?s wrong. How can I access the original Mod ? } Thanks for help M. Eger -- +------------------------------------------------------- | Marcus Eger | Philipps Universitaet

I'm running R 3.4.1 on Linux. I'm getting the following error message. Error in UseMethod("xmlAttrs", node) : no applicable method for 'xmlAttrs' applied to an object of class "NULL" Calls: rdKMeans -> rdLoadModel -> xmlAttrs This appears to be a known issue in R Linux that was supposed to be patched. Is this really fixed? Was it fixed in 3.4.2?