similar to: S3 vs S4 for a simple package

hits=1.0 tests=MANY_EXCLAMATIONS X-USF-Spam-Flag: NO Hi I am writing a package for multivariate polynomials ('multipols') using S3 methods. The package includes a Ops.multipol() function for the arithmetic methods; I would like to define some sort of user-specified Boolean option which, if set, would force results to be simplified as they are produced. Call this option

Dear list, It seems that S4 methods defined for an S3 'base' generic are not used in 'base' functions. This can be problematic when 'base' functions start with something like 'as.matrix'. ### START R code setClass("classA", contains = "matrix", representation(realData = "numeric")) setMethod("as.matrix",

Dear R People: Could someone direct me to some documentation on the difference between S3 and S4 classes, please? For example, why would a person use one as opposed to another? Maybe pros and cons of each? Thanks in advance! R Version 2.2.0 (I'm downloading the new one this afternoon!) Windows. Happy New Year! Sincerely, Erin Hodgess Associate Professor Department of Computer and

PkgA wishes to write a method for 'unique' on S4 class 'A'. ?Methods indicates that one should setGeneric("unique") setClass("A") unique.A <- function(x, incomparables=FALSE, ...) {} setMethod(unique, "A", unique.A) Both S3 and S4 methods need to be exported in the NAMESPACE import(methods) S3method(unique, A)

Hi all, I'm trying to implement the matrix multiplication operator, which is S4 generic, for an old-style S3 class. The following works as expected: x <- 1:10 class(x) <- "myClass" setOldClass("myClass") setGeneric("myMethod", function(x, y) standardGeneric("myMethod")) setMethod("myMethod", c("myClass", "myClass"),

Dear all, I asked this question on r-package-devel but Martin Maechler pointed out this was more suited on R-devel. So here it goes: per the manual, one should create and register both the S3 and a S4 method if one needs a method for an S4 class for a function using S3 dispatching. This is cumbersome, and not very optimal. I was wondering if there's a better way to do this. Currently I

Dear developers, the implementation of S4 generics for existing S3 ones in the base package is concerned to be a threat to quick startup times [1]. But since S4 is promoted, and S3/S4 interoperability a pain when package developing [2], are there efforts to improve the situation? E.g. an S3 free system, etc. A good thing [2] is the package 'stats4', including some setGeneric calls (e.g.

On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 6:20 PM, Michael Lawrence <lawrence.michael at gene.com > wrote: > You only have to make an S4 method if there is already an S4 generic. > If there is just an S3 generic, then just define S3 methods on it. I was refering to the recommendations in ?Methods_for_S3 ( https://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-devel/library/methods/html/Methods_for_S3.html). : "Two

If a package defined an S3 generic and an S4 generic for the same function (so as to add methods for S4 classes to the existing code), how do I set up the namespace to have them exported? With import(stats) exportMethods(bigglm) importClassesFrom(DBI) useDynLib(biglm) export(biglm) export(bigglm) in NAMESPACE, the S3 generic is not exported. > methods("bigglm") [1] bigglm.RODBC*

We've been running samba3 with an ldap backend for several years now in our company. We use a separate exchange server for email, requiring users to keep two separate passwords - one for the domain (samba) and one for exchange. I've been looking at samba4 for a while and am running a test server with it, built from the latest git source as per the howto description. We would be quite

Dear R developers, Motivated by discussion about checking inheritance of S3 and S4 objects (in head matrix/array topic) I would light to shed some light on a minor gap about that matter in R C API. Currently we are able to check inheritance for S3 class objects from C in a robust way (no allocation, thread safe). This is unfortunately not possible for S4 classes. I would kindly request new

I have developed a package, bayesm, which uses existing classes of objects. I would like to add a new class corresponding to objects from this package. I have been reading about classes and all sources tell me that I should use so-called "new" or S4 classes. However, a major purpose of defining a class for my package would be to add methods to the existing generic functions: print,

Hi, Being relatively new to OO programming and not so old on R, I noticed the possibility to do OO programming in R. But it seems there is two "paradigms" S3 that seems the old one but is the one used in the R.oo package and S4 which seems more recent As a starting point, which one is best to use? Is R.oo useful? what are the main difference between the two? Any feedback

2017-09-22 19:04 GMT+02:00 Michael Lawrence <lawrence.michael at gene.com>: > The %*% function is a primitive. As it says in the documentation under > ?Methods_Details > > Methods may be defined for most primitives, and corresponding > metadata objects will be created to store them. Calls to the > primitive still go directly to the C code, which will

A general goal for the next version of R is to make S4 and S3 play better together. As mentioned in a previous thread, one limitation has been that S3 generic functions, specifically the UseMethod() call, did not make use of S4 inheritance when dispatching on general S4 objects. This has been fixed in a version committed today (updated to rev 52267). The code change is not large, but it

I'd like to have a class A that computes a likelihood, and a subclass B that computes the same likelihood by sometimes throws in an additional term (B includes measurement error). So B's likelihood needs to call A's, and then (sometimes) multiply by an additional term. It sounds as if, in the S3 scheme, NextMethod is supposed to do this: like.A <- function(stuff) compute value

I'm not sure if this as a bug or something I am doing wrong. It occurs in both 2.7.0 and 2.6.2. require("methods") setClassUnion("OptionalPOSIXct", c("POSIXct", "NULL")) setClass("TSmetax", representation(serIDs="character", ExtractionDate="OptionalPOSIXct" )) setGeneric("TSmetax", def= function(x,

I have J Chambers wonderful text ( Software for data Analysis) and I've been trying my hand at some very routine S4 OOP development. One of the things I was trying to do was to create some very basic S4 classes. The first was simply a class that had a data.frame as part of its representation. setClass("df",representation(dirframe="data.frame")) The object basically

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I am trying to extend an S3 method to work with an S4 object as well as the S3 objects it works with, but UseMethod does not seem to recognize the S4 class and dispatches to the default method. Is this to be expected or should I be looking for an error in my code? If it is not an error in my code, is there an easy way to do this, or do I have to convert the generic to S4 and then make those