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Dear all, I have a question regarding setIs and method dispatch in S4 classes: Consider the following example: ##################################################### ## A02 "contains" A01 by setIs: setClass("A01", representation(a="numeric",b="numeric")) setClass("A02", representation(a="numeric",d="numeric"))

Hello, the last command (isGeneric) in following R-code (attached) produces different output, depending on wheter 1.8.0 alpha or 1.7.1 is used. Is that to be expected ? Both R Versions were started with option vanilla --------------------------------------------------- R.1.7.1: --------------------------------------------------- > version _ platform i686-pc-linux-gnu arch i686

Dear John and Seth, dear R-devels, once again the question of method dispatch in S4 -- this time with setClassUnion(); taking up your advice in https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2006-April/037200.html https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2006-April/037201.html I have been too quick in stating that >setClassUnion()---at least in my case---solves the problem; > The problem arises

Hi, perhaps a little bit unusual: is it possible to use "<- " as generic function with a new signature? The following example doesn't work: > isGeneric("<-") [1] FALSE > setClass("A",representation(x = "numeric")) [1] "A" > setClass("B",representation(x = "numeric")) [1] "B" > myAssign.A <-

after this setClass("A") setGeneric("bar", function(x, y) standardGeneric("bar")) setMethod(bar, signature(x="A", y="A"), function(x, y) {}) setMethod(bar, signature(x="A", y="ANY"), function(x, y) {}) the method for signature c("A", "A") contains package information > str(getMethod(bar,

For documentation we use a system that generates Rd files from special comments in the code. (inlinedocs). It is crucial to be able to get the defining source code for objects like methods to extract the comments from it. Here is an R session that shows how this works for several kinds of methods and (at the end of the session) how if fails for methods of "initialize" >

Hello, I have a simple class that looks like: setClass("statisticInfo", representation( max = "numeric", min = "numeric", beg = "numeric", current = "numeric", avg = "numeric", obs = "vector"

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

I'm attempting to reflect the information for use with corresponding fields in GUI (in a different package), to provide default values, argname as key for UI label lookups, etc. So I want something much more like the formals of the implementation: { "object", "method": c("median", "vs", "tukey"),

Interrogating some (of my own) code in another package. >norm.meth <- getMethod("normalize", "MatrixLike") >message("str(norm.meth)") >str(norm.meth) >message("show(norm.meth at .Data)") >show(norm.meth at .Data) Last show() displays this: function (object, ...) { .local <- function (object, method = c("median",

Just wondered about this curious behaviour. I'm trying to learn about classes. Basically setMethod works the first time, but does not seem to work the second time. Faheem. ************************************************************************* setClass("foo", representation(x="numeric")) bar <-

We do need an explicit method here, I think. The issue is that as() uses methods for the generic function coerce() but cannot use inheritance in the usual way (if it did, you would be immediately back with no change, since "integer" inherits from "numeric"). Copying in the general method for coercing to "numeric" as an explicit method for "integer" gives

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",

I am new to using S4 methods and have run into this problem (on Windows XP using R 2.4.1): I am writing a package in which I use the graph package. I define my own classes of graphs as: setOldClass("graphsh") setOldClass("ugsh") setIs("ugsh", "graphsh") (I know that I "should have" used setClass instead - and I will eventually - but right now

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

I have encountered an issue which I have been unable to resolve, involving an S3 generic (print) being declared S4 generic in a package, and the method being exported. This all works fine - the problem occurs when I try to import the method to another package. Here is the bit that works fine. ------------- #the .r file for package bar

>>>>> Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch> >>>>> on Tue, 8 Dec 2015 15:25:21 +0100 writes: >>>>> John Chambers <jmc at r-project.org> >>>>> on Mon, 7 Dec 2015 16:05:59 -0800 writes: >> We do need an explicit method here, I think. >> The issue is that as() uses methods for the generic

I am trying to create a class union of class unions to facilitate method dispatch. When I execute code in the global environment, everything acts as expected, however when I put the same code in the context of a package, selectMethod can no longer find the correct method. This first block below puts the code in the context of a package: fn <- "codefile.R" writeLines( c(

Dear list, I was wondering how to best implement some sort of a "plugin" paradigm using R methods and the dispatcher: Say we have a function/method ('foo') that does something useful, but that should be open for extension in ONE specific area by OTHERS using my package. Of course they could go ahead and write a whole new 'foo' method including the features they'd

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