similar to: S4 generic surprise

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.

1. promptClass generated a file that included \section{Methods}{ No methods defined with class "mspathDistributedCalculator" in the signature. } Yet there are such methods. Is this a not-working yet feature, or is something funny going on (maybe I have definitions in the library and in the global workspace...)? 2. Is the \code{\link{myS4class-class}} the proper way to cross-reference a

I've run into an unpleasant oddity involving the interaction of environments and generic functions. I want to check my diagnosis, and see if there is a good way to avoid the problem. Problem: A library defines "foo" <- function(object) 1 setMethod("foo", c("matrix"), function(object) 30) After loading the library foo(0) is 1 foo(matrix()) is 30 foo is a

Late to the show on this release, unfortunately. One of our production packages no longer builds under R-2.15.0 with the following message. ** testing if installed package can be loaded Error: Function found when exporting methods from the namespace 'SuperCurve' which is not S4 generic: 'image' Possibly relevant clues follow: ## From R/AllGenerics.R if

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, Say we want to supply a generic plot() in a package with a simple class, like this: ---<--------------------cut here---------------start------------------->--- setClass("track", representation=representation(x="numeric", y="numeric")) if (!isGeneric("plot")) { setGeneric("plot", function(x, y, ...)

Dear list, It seems that a package (pkgB) using another package (pkgA) with S4 generics formed by taking existing functions (for example 'plot') must not import the existing functions ('plot') in its namespace to avoid the warning "replacing previous import: plot". Suppose we use the simple 'import' directive in the name space of pkgB. pkgA and pkgB files would

Originally I made a function yearStop that took an argument "object". I made a generic, but later changed the argument to "x". R keeps resurrecting the old definition. Could anyone explain what is going on, or how to fix it? Note particularly the end of the transcript below: I remove the generic, verify that the symbol is undefined, make a new function, and then make a

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

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 <-

First, if I have an S4 class boo should I define S3 method for printing print.boo(..) or should I define S4 method print(..). I mainly need to define print function only because some user might call it and then I would like to dispatch the call to right function instead. Second, it seems that by defining S4 generic function print, it is possible to break argument hinting on the status bar.

I have a small S4 class for which I've written a page grouping many of the accessors and replacement functions together. I would be interested in people comments on the approach I've taken. The code has a couple of decisions for which I could imagine alternatives. First, even simple get/set operations on class elements are wrapped in functions. I suppose I could just use myinstance at

Is there any good source of information on how S4 classes (and methods) work from C? E.g., for reading how to read a slot value how to invoke a method how to test if you have an s4 object For writing, how to make a new instance of an S4 object. I've found scattered hints in the archive, including a link to a talk on this subject "I am using C code to create an S4 object based on

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

I tried the following (relevant excerpt only) setMethod("likelihood", signature(spec="Specification", covs="vector", states="vector"), function(spec, covs, states) { #### setMethod("likelihood", signature(model="Model", path="matrix"), function(model, path) { This

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",

Hello all, I consider myself pretty new to the whole OO based programming so I'm sorry if I'm doing something stupid. > xml<-read.metlin(url) Error in function (classes, fdef, mtable) : unable to find an inherited method for function "read.metlin", for signature "url" >read.metlin standardGeneric for "read.metlin" defined from package

Would you please clarify your exact use case? Thanks, Michael On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 9:02 AM, Roebuck,Paul L <PLRoebuck at mdanderson.org> wrote: > Interrogating some (of my own) code in another package. > > >norm.meth <- getMethod("normalize", "MatrixLike") > >message("str(norm.meth)") > >str(norm.meth) > >

Hello all, Let me try this again with some code. I am trying to make a new object and it's not working. I get : Error in rematchDefinition(definition, fdef, mnames, fnames, signature) : methods can add arguments to the generic only if '...' is an argument to the generic as my error. I have included my code. It is from the xcms package. Any help would be great even if

At this point I would just due: formals(body(method)[[2L]]) At some point we need to figure out what to do with this .local() confusion. On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 10:07 AM, Roebuck,Paul L <PLRoebuck at mdanderson.org> wrote: > I'm attempting to reflect the information for use with corresponding > fields in GUI (in a different package), to provide default values, > argname