similar to: S4 problems

Hi I am having difficulty defining an S4 method for head() and tail(). I can't quite provide minimal self-contained code because the problem appears to require the whole corpus of my package; and there also appears to be a difference between sourcing the lines directly, and having them installed in a package. The lines in question (I think) are: setClass("mdm",

Hello, I'm trying to get S4 dispatch on S3 "connection" objects. So I do : setOldClass( "connection" ) and then : setGeneric( "bling", function(object) standardGeneric( "bling" ) ) setMethod( "bling", "connection", function(object) cat( "gotcha ", as.integer(object), "\n" ) ) but I get : f <- file(

Hello. I am trying to write an S4 method for rbind(). I have a class of objects called 'mdm', and I want to be able to rbind() them to one another. I do not want the method for rbind() to coerce anything to an mdm object. I want rbind(x1,x2,x1,x2) to work as expected [ie rbind() should take any number of arguments]. This is what I have so far: setGeneric(".rbind_pair",

Hi list, I've got a class B that contains a slot obj of class A. I'd like to be able to call all the methods of class A directly on objects of class B as if I had called the method on slot obj. This without overloading all methods of class A to work on class B. I don't define B as an extension of A, because I want class B to also work with objects of classes that inherit from

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

Hello everyone. R-2.12.0, suse linux 11.3. I am debugging a package that uses S4 methods and R CMD check gives the following warning: > Warning in methods::findMethods(g, env) : > non-generic function 'mdm' given to findMethods() > See the information on DESCRIPTION files in the chapter 'Creating R > packages' of the 'Writing R Extensions' manual. I

Hi, I started this post on bioc-devel but this seems to be more general: https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/bioc-devel/2013-May/004311.html See reproducible example from Martin below. Thank you. Renaud ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Martin Morgan <mtmorgan at fhcrc.org> Date: 7 May 2013 19:55 Subject: Re: [Bioc-devel] ExpressionSet and LumiBatch: inheritance problem in S4

I am new to using S4 methods and have run into this problem (on Windows XP using R 2.4.1): I am writing a package in which I use the graph package. I define my own classes of graphs as: setOldClass("graphsh") setOldClass("ugsh") setIs("ugsh", "graphsh") (I know that I "should have" used setClass instead - and I will eventually - but right now

Hello everybody R version 2.4.0 alpha (2006-09-15 r39323), MacOSX 10.4.7 Next S4 problem. I have "brob" objects that are large real numbers, and now I want "glub" numbers that are to be a pair of glubs that represent complex numbers. I want to define binary operator "+" so that if either the left or right argument are glubs, it uses .ArithGlub. If either

Hello, I've been attempting to make a generic method that dispatches on the first argument, which can be either an S3 or an S4 class. This is as far as I've gotten. Any suggestions about what to try next ? library(aroma.affymetrix) library(GenomicRanges) setGeneric("analyse", function(x, y, ...) standardGeneric("analyse")) setMethodS3("analyse",

Hello, If the signature of a method defines which generic it implements then I'm confused about why this minimal example I invented won't work : setGeneric("myFun", function(rs, ...){standardGeneric("myFun")}) setGeneric("myFun", function(cs, ...){standardGeneric("myFun")}) setMethod("myFun", "numeric", function(rs, colour =

I feel tedious when I define a S4 class and the methods. For each method, I have to call both setMethod and setGeneric (or both setReplaceMethod and setGeneric). I would like a more compact grammar so that I can reduce the key strokes. I'm wondering if there is a better way available. setClass( Class='A', representation=representation( x='numeric' )

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 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"),

For learning purposes mainly I attempted to implement hashes/maps/dictionaries (Python lingua) as S4 classes, see the coding below. I came across some rough S4 edges, but in the end it worked (for one dictionary). When testing ones sees that the dictionaries D1 and D2 share their environments D1 at hash and D2 at hash, though I thought a new and empty environment would be generated each time

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 the list, I define a method that want to change an object without assignation (foo(x) and not x<-foo(x)) using deparse and assign. But when the argument of the method does not match *exactly* with the definition of the generic function, assign does not work... Anything wrong? Christophe #------ Does not work ------#

Some quick questions about S4 methods. Does the typing of S4 methods mean that lazy evaluation is no longer possible? It seems that you would need to evaluate the arguments to determine their type at dispatch. Second, what role, if any, do default arguments play in S4 methods? I notice that you can put default arguments into generics but that the dispatch is still done on the type of the

I am running Rmpi and MPICH2 to do parallelization in a Windows 7 machine. I am only using my PC's cores. Parallelization for standard R code works fine. For S4 code I am having the following problem: Let us say I have a class A and a subclasses B and C (both B and C "contains" A). I declared a method setGeneric( name = "superClassMethod", def = function(object)

Hello everyone, I encountered the following confusing behavior of 'deparse' and 'substitute' while programming with S4 classes (see example below). It seems like the presence of '...' argument in the definition of the generic generates the problem. I have no clue why, can anyone explain that to me? Are there any "workarounds"? Thanks a lot for your time!