similar to: Reference classes: opinion on OOP design

Sorry, never sent an attachment before. I think my .R file didn't pass, so I'm attaching a .txt instead. -----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht----- Von: Janko Thyson [mailto:janko.thyson at ku-eichstaett.de] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 17. November 2010 19:56 An: 'r-devel at r-project. org' Betreff: Reference classes: opinion on OOP design Dear list, I?m aware that this post does not really

Dear list, just to make sure that I understand 'unregistering' methods for S4 reference classes correctly: If I registered a method and want to 'unregister' (i.e. remove) this method again, objects/instance created of the respective class still feature the removed method until I do an explicit reassign ('my.instance <- getRefClass("Classname")$new()'), right?

Hi there, I''d like to choose between an "static" and "dynamic" access of a reference class field, say ''a''. myObj <- getRefClass("Blabla")$new() Static: myObj$a Dynamic: myObj$a.get() where the function retrieves the data from a database (or some other location), stores it to a buffer and

Dear list, I don't know what's the correct term for this in the OOP context, but is it possible to "clone"/copy an instance of a reference class (say 'a') so that I get an *autonomous* second instance 'b'? Autonomous in the sense that changes to 'a' do not affect 'b'. I know that this is somewhat against the pass-by-reference paradigm, but the

Dear list, is there a shortcut-function to check whether a class is a Reference Class or not? There's something like this for S4 classes ('isS4(object)'), but I couldn't find anything regarding Ref Classes. Currently, I'm doing it this way, which is a bit clumsy: A <- setRefClass("A", fields=list(X="numeric")) a <- A$new() isRefClass <-

Dear list, is it possible that method dispatch checks for superclasses/virtual classes before checking "ANY"? I'd like to build a generic initialization method for all my Reference Class (say "MyDataFrame") objects by having them inherit from class, say "MyRefClassVirtual" (which would have to be a virtual S4 class; there are no virtual Reference Classes,

Dear list, a while ago I posted this at r-devel but got no answers. Hope it?s okay to give it a shot again by cross-posting it here. TIA for any comments, Janko Von: Janko Thyson [mailto:janko.thyson.rstuff at googlemail.com] Gesendet: Montag, 21. Februar 2011 00:58 An: r-devel at r-project. org (r-devel at r-project.org) Betreff: Reference classes: error with missing arguments in method calls

Dear list, I wonder how to write methods for the function 'as' in the sense that I can call 'as(object, Class, strict=TRUE, ext)' and let method dispatch figure out the correct method. AFAIU, there is a difference between, e.g. 'as.data.frame' and the methods of 'as()' as stated above since the former depends on arg 'x' instead of 'object',

Hi everyone, just wanted to ask what's the smartest/recommended way of defining getter and setter function *shortcuts* (i.e. something like "[", "[<-") for Reference Class objects? Or is it desired to not use this stuff, but define methods like 'obj$getSubset(row=1:3, col=1)' and 'obj$setSubset(value=x)' instead? I have some example code that might

Dear list, I'm getting some strange behavior with Reference Classes every once in a while and I can't really put my finger on the cause. It'd be great if someone using Reference Classes could check if he/she experiences similar problems: The thing is that when I alter the definition of a Reference Class in a running R session and source the respective file containing the class

Hi there, is it possible to register fields as you can register methods with getRefClass("Classname")$methods(.)? I know that you should usually give some thought on which fields you need and hardcode them in the class def. But I''m playing around with dynamically creating/extending sort of a template class that already offers basic functionality shared by all objects

Dear list, I have a reference class which should act as a "generic" superclass for other classes. I've read the respective section at ?setRefClass and put the name of the superclass to the 'contains' argument of an example subclass (see class defs below). Classnames are set in a way that shouldn't result in collation issues (virtual def sourced before superclass def

Dear list, I'm wondering if the following error I'm getting is a small bug in the Reference Class paradigm or if it makes perfect sense. When you write an explicit initialize method for a Ref Class, can you then make use of '.self' WITHIN this initialize method just as you would once an object of the class has actually been initialized? Because it seems to me that you can not.

Dear List, I am not really familiar with any other language than R, but I?ve heard that in other languages there is something called ?self referencing?. Here?s what I?m trying to get an answer for: Suppose there is a function that takes as its input a value of a slot of an S4 object. The function itself is stored in another slot of the SAME S4 object. Is it then possible to have the function

Dear list, is there a way to declare public and private methods in S4 Reference Classes? If not, are there plans to add such a feature? You'll find a small code example of what I mean at Stackoverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11073253/oop-with-r-is-there-a-way-to-declare-public-and-private-methods-s4-reference-c Thanks a lot, Janko Thyson

Dear List, I’m doing my first baby steps towards developing own R Packages and ran into the following problem: R CMD check mypackage works fine (no errors, no warnings) R CMD build mypackage works fine (no errors, no warnings) R CMD INSTALL –library=”C:\R\R-2.11.1\library” “something\mypackage\mypackage_1.0.tar.gz” works fine (no errors, no warnings) However, when I try loading the

Dear List, I’m doing my first baby steps towards developing own R Packages and ran into the following problem: R CMD check mypackage works fine (no errors, no warnings) R CMD build mypackage works fine (no errors, no warnings) R CMD INSTALL –library=”C:\R\R-2.11.1\library” “something\mypackage\mypackage_1.0.tar.gz” works fine (no errors, no warnings) However, when I try loading the

Dear list, I came up with a two functions that flatten arbitrary deeply nested lists (as long as they're named; not tested for unnamed) and environments (see attachment; 'flatten_examples.txt' contains some examples). The paradigm is somewhat similar to that implemented in 'unlist()', yet extends it. I would have very much liked to build upon the superfast functionality

Dear list, I'm having problems in understanding an error that pops up in the context of missing arguments with methods of reference class objects. Because of the following statement taken from '?referenceClass', my ref class methods call explicit S4 methods: "Reference methods should be kept simple; if they need to do some specialized R computation, that computation

Dear list, I hope this is the right place to post a feature request. If there's exists a more formal channel (e.g. as for bug reports), I'd appreciate a pointer. I work a lot with named nested lists with arbitrary degrees of "nestedness". In order to retrieve the names and/or values of "bottom layer/bottom tier", I love the functionality of 'unlist()', or