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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")

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'

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

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

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.

Hi the list I am creating a package and I have a problem to define a S4 method for plot. I define a class 'A' and a class 'B'. I want to define a function plot for signature c(A,missing) and another method plot for signature c(A,B). My code is the following : In /package/R/ directory: --- main.R --- setGeneric("plot",function(x,y,...){standardGeneric("plot")})

Hi, There seems to be a problem with setGroupGeneric() from package 'methods'. The symptoms are somewhat erratic, in the sense that small changes may lead to any of the following behaviours. 1.Package works without problems on Windows and installs on Linux but gives error when loaded with library(). 2.Package installs on both systems and gives error when loaded on any of them. 3.

Hi list, Calling setGeneric()/setMethod() from within the .onLoad() hook of MyPkg package produces the following error: > gctorture(TRUE) > library(MyPkg) .onLoad(): ok1 .onLoad(): ok2 Error : protect(): protection stack overflow Error : .onLoad failed in 'loadNamespace' for 'MyPkg' Error: package/namespace load failed for 'MyPkg' This is with

i think these two code snippets exhibit a bug. they are identical but for the inclusion of an initial line in snippet [2] [1] setMethod("Math", signature(x = "numeric"), function(x) "Works") getGeneric("sqrt")(4) [2] getGeneric("sqrt")(4) setMethod("Math", signature(x = "numeric"), function(x) "Works")

Hi, I am trying to define the as.POSIXct as an S4 method for one of my classes. Trying to define a generic, I am getting an error that it is already differently defined in base. However, if I query for it, there is no definition. Being in base, I also cannot really import it. If I define methods without definig a generic, they will work but with a warning that a new generic will be automatically

Hi there, I'm working with an object whose internal data representation is very different from a data.frame (data is stored as a list of big.matrix objects from the bigmemory package) but to which I'd like to give users data.frame-like access. I've implemented names very easily as follows: setMethod("names", signature = "my.dataset", definition = function (x) {

Hello. I am trying to write an S4 method for rbind(). I have a class of objects called 'mdm', and I want to be able to rbind() them to one another. I do not want the method for rbind() to coerce anything to an mdm object. I want rbind(x1,x2,x1,x2) to work as expected [ie rbind() should take any number of arguments]. This is what I have so far: setGeneric(".rbind_pair",

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 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":

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

Hi all: we have noticed for quite a while that certain errors cannot be handled by R try, tryCatch etc blocks, but it was fairly difficult to understand what were the conditions for this incorrect behaviour. Finally I stabbed across a very understandable case, which is outlined in the (runnable) example below. The main message is: wrapping an S4 method call in a try block will not help if an

I've had repeated problems with promptClass missing methods, usually telling me a class has no methods when it does. In my current case, I've defined an S4 class "mspathCoefficients" with a print method setMethod("print", signature(x="mspathCoefficients"), function(x, ...) { # etc The file promptClass creates has no methods in it. >

This is a correction to my previous message, I forgot to swap two lines in the body of setMakeGenericMethod. Sorry about that. The correct (full message) reads like this: Hi, This works > setGeneric("clear", function(obj) standardGeneric("clear")) [1] "clear" but this doesn't. Why? > funName <- "clear" > setGeneric(funName,

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 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: