similar to: Overriding S4 methods in an installed package

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

Hi, Given a simple three class hierarchy: A <-- B <-- C I want to define an initialize method for each class such that when I call new("C", x=5), the initialize methods for A and B are used to incrementally build the object. When I do what seems obvious to me using callNextMethod, I get an infinite recursion. An example follows... setClass("A",

Hi all, I would like to access the name of a variable passed to an S4 method. For a function, I would do this: f <- function(x) as.character(substitute(x)) This also works for a the examples I have tried for methods that do not have extra, non-dispatch args: setGeneric("A", function(x, ...) standardGeneric("A")) setMethod("A",

Hi, after updating R 2.5.0 devel yesterday we today observed many new unexpected failures in our daily package build and test system runs, which can be traced to recent changes in the implementation in try() (as noted in NEWS). Investigating this new implementation I come across an issue in conjuntion with using S4 classes and methods. try(expr) does not return an object with attribute

Should functions or the user be responsible for coercing an S4 object argument containing the proper object (and thus should below be considered a bug in the packages or not)? The example is with RSQLite but the same thing happens with RMySQL, and other DBI packages. > library("RSQLite") Loading required package: DBI > m <- dbDriver("SQLite") > con <-

Hi all, The dict package provides a dictionary (hashtable) data structure much like R's built-in environment objects, but with the following differences: - The Dict class can be subclassed. - Four different hashing functions are implemented and the user can specify which to use when creating an instance. I'm sending this here as opposed to R-packages because this package will

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, I wonder if this will make it through the spam filters given the subject line. I'm seeing the following when trying to call a dollar method inside of a dollar method. setClass("Foo", representation(d="list")) [1] "Foo" f <- new("Foo", d=list(bob=1, alice=2)) ## We can call dollar at this level and it works as expected

Is it safe to call setGeneric twice, assuming some setMethod's for the target function occur in between? By "safe" I mean that all the setMethod's remain in effect, and the 2nd call is, effectively, a no-op. ?setGeneric says nothing explicit about this behavior that I can see. It does say that if there is an existing implicity generic function it will be (re?)used. I also tried

Hi folks, Ubuntu 10.04 64 bit Where can I find 64 bit RSQLite? It seems not there; RSQLite: SQLite interface for R http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/RSQLite/index.html TIA B.R. Stephen L

Seth, I encountered problems installing RSQLite, R-2.7.0, on RHEL4 using Intel 10.1 icc, My sysadmin helped me track down the problem and kindly forwarded me the fix, which corrected the problem. What follows is from the sysadmin. Mark I looked at the error, looks like there is a bug in the source code. I've attached a new tarball, hopefully fixed. I added #include <sys/types.h>

RDieHarder fails its regression tests on x86_64 (aka "amd64") at CRAN (using Debian), and I see the same on Ubuntu 8.10 in 64 bit. No issues on 32bit. One odd thing is that the program behaves well if run via R --no-save < tests/RDieHarder.R but NOT when started using R --slave < tests/RDieHarder.R as R CMD check does. So I tried different things related to startup

showMethods isn't reporting inherited methods when it is first called. The methods are there and after calling them, showMethods gives the right output. Here is an example (using R-devel r39647): setClass("A", representation(x="numeric"), prototype=list(x=1)) setClass("B", contains="A", prototype=list(x=2))

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

Hi, Tried with R 2.6 and R 2.7: > gregexpr("", "abc", fixed=TRUE) *** caught segfault *** address 0x1c09000, cause 'memory not mapped' Traceback: 1: gregexpr("", "abc", fixed = TRUE) Possible actions: 1: abort (with core dump, if enabled) 2: normal R exit 3: exit R without saving workspace 4: exit R saving workspace

Hi, for 'affxparser' (Bioconductor), we needed a function to test if a certain package was loaded or not, but we did not want to load it if it wasn't, which is why we couldn't use require(). We came up with the following solution: isPackageLoaded <- function(package, version=NULL, ...) { s <- search(); if (is.null(version)) { s <-

Dear all, Maybe, I am doing something wrong, but using R-2.5.0 on my Intel-Mac, I have problems using function callNextMethod() in method initialize. I am loading the following code as file "testS4.R": setClass("baseClass", representation(myname = "character", mydir = "character", "VIRTUAL"),

As far as I can tell, 'isOpen' cannot return FALSE in the case when 'rw = ""'. If the connection has already been closed by 'close' or some other function, then isOpen will produce an error. The problem is that when isOpen calls 'getConnection', the connection cannot be found and 'getConnection' produces an error. The check to see if it is

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",

Full_Name: Allen McIntosh Version: 2.0.0 OS: Linux Submission from: (NULL) (67.80.175.118) Observed the bug with the following combinations: (RedHat 7.3, R 1.6.0) (RedHat 7.3, R 1.9.1) (Redhat 9, R2.0.0). In the second plot (.png file) produced by the following sequence: png(file="x%d.png") plot(1:10,1:10,main="ooo",type="n") segments(1:9,1:9,2:10,1:9)