similar to: S4 method execution time

Dear all, Assume that I have an S4 class "MyClass" with a slot "myname", which is initialized to: myname="" in method("initialize"): myclass <- new("MyClass", myname="") Assume that class "MyClass" has a method "mymethod": "mymethod.MyClass" <- function(object, myname=character(0), ...) {

Dear all, Since my package is based on S4 classes, I would like to know how to add a slot to an existing S4 class without breaking the code of users of my package. Assume the following S4 class: setClass("MyClass", representation(name = "character", type = "character", data = "data.frame" ), prototype(name =

Dear all, I have created a new S4 class with name "MyClass". Please see below for it's definition. Now I want to create a method for the show() function for this class. In defining this method, what I want is, once user would like see an object of this class some values will be displayed. Then R will ask for **press Enter**. Once user presses enter then, remaining values will be

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" >

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"),

Hi, I ran into the following peculiarity involving S4 method dispatch and namespaces. I develop a package which have a namespace and which depends on 'pixmap' package, which itself does not have a namespace. Now, in my package I have a class which has a slot for objects from class "pixmap" and I want to have a "plot" method for this new class. Not to clutter the

Following my previous post on S3 method despatch, I put debug messages in the code of Axis, Axis.default and plot.default in graphics/R/axis.R and graphics/R/plot.R to print the class of x, at and y on plot. After recompiling R, what I see is that x *lost* its class attribute (at least for classes not known to 'graphics') in Axis, called directly from plot.default and this could be the

I need some help in defining a "print" method for my new S4 class definition. So fer I have worked like this: setClass("MyClass", sealed=F, representation(slot1 = "list", #create a new class slot2 = "vector", slot3 = "vector", slot4 = "vector")) setMethod("print",

Hi all, I came across an issue in using the Matrix package which made it that I could only subset Matrices using the numeric class, but could not using integers. Steps to reproduce the problem: library(Matrix) # this class has *nothing* to do with Matrix setClass("MyClass", representation(myvalue = "numeric"), prototype(myvalue = NA_real_)) # this class also has

Dear list, here is a problem I met when trying to use a method for an S4 object, without loading the package in which the method was defined. I do not know if this is a bug, or a mistake of mine. Normally, I think the package in which the appropriate method is defined is loaded automatically when calling the method. The problem is that if the package is indeed loaded automatically, the

I do lots of analyses on large microarray data sets so memory use and speed and both important issues for me. I have been trying to estimate the overheads associated with using formal S4 data objects instead of ordinary lists for large data objects. In some simple experiments (using R 1.7.1 in Windows 2000) with large but simple objects it seems that giving a data object a formal class

Hello everyone, I'm working on a package using S4 classes and methods and I ran into the following "problem" when I tried to create an "apply" method for objects of one of my new classes. I've found a way around the problem but I wonder if I did not paint myself into the corner. I'd like your opinion about that. So I have an object "myObj" of class

Dears, I have a question about copying reference objects using the initialize method. 1) If the latter has no arguments, there is no problem to copy an object. myClass = setRefClass("myClass", fields = list(value = "numeric") ) myClass$methods(initialize = function(...){ ? value <<- 1 ? callSuper(...) }) newObject = myClass$new() newObject$value = 2 copyObject =

I'm using R 1.8.1 (Win32, Linux) and have some difficulties using validation functions for S4 classes. The problem is if I specify a validation function with setValidity("myclass", validate.myclass) object validation is only performed when I create an instance using new("myclass"), or when I explicitly call validObject(x) where x is of class "myclass", of

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

Hello, I'd like to 'do work' on data members upon construction (i.e. without implementing it in a get method). Is this the best way to create data member 'z' upon construction? I'm thinking if .z=paste(x,y) below gets more complex I'll run into issues. setConstructorS3("MyClass", function(x=NA,y=NA,...) { this <- extend(Object(), "MyClass",

Hi all ! I noticed a strange behaviour of the function `class<-` when a class-specific '[[.' method is defined. Here below a reproducible example : #-------------------------------------------------------------------. counttt <- 0 `[[.MYCLASS` = function(x, ...) { counttt <<- counttt + 1 # browser() x = NextMethod() return(x) } df <- as.data.frame(matrix(1:20,

Sorry in advance if this is too simple a question, but I'm stuck with some odd behavior and I can't find the text to rid myself of this (admittedly somewhat trivial) problem. Note that I've done generic programming with S3 "objects" in the past, but I've never really dabbled in creating S4 objects until now. So, I've created a new S4 class, call it

Dear list: I am looking for a good way to create an S4 class that would extend numeric, but would allow NULL instead of data as well. As far as I can see there is no way at the moment to do that, but please correct me if I am wrong. The best solution I came up with so far was the following (it also indicates a problem of using setClassUnion with numeric as one of the classes): I define a class

Dear All, In R 3.6.3 (and earlier), method dispatch used to work for methods stored in local environments that are attached to the search path. For example: myfun <- function(y) { out <- list(y=y) class(out) <- "myclass" return(out) } print.myclass <- function(x, ...) print(formatC(x$y, format="f", digits=5)) myfun(1:4) # prints: [1]