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R-Devel-ers: I have an S4 method that simply formats an object: setGeneric("formatMe", function(x) standardGeneric("formatMe")) setMethod("formatMe", "ANY", function(x) format(x)) If I issue the above in an R session, then define an S4 class with its own format method, I get the desired result: > setClass("A",contains="numeric")

Hi again, I must be misunderstanding something fundamental about how an S4 class stored in a data.frame can be persuaded to print according to a desired format. The help page says: format.data.frame formats the data frame column by column, applying the appropriate method of format for each column. Here is my class: > setClass("A",contains="character") [1] "A"

Full_Name: John Verzani Version: 2.4.0 alpha (2006-09-05 r39134) OS: linux, gentoo 2.6.17 Submission from: (NULL) (163.238.43.26) When extending the "[" method to a new S4 class, the default value for the drop argument is not being found. Here is a small example: setClass("test",representation(x="character"))

DeaR list, Pardon the stupidity of this question but I've been trying this for a while now without success. I've followed the example given in the green book "programming with data", and I now have a working example of a S4 class with a few methods (plot, summary, as.data.frame). It's all very nice in one file, but I cannot find the way to put this information in a

Hello, I am trying to improve my skill on S4 classes. But there's something strange (to me) happening with "initialize" methods. This is probably a normal behaviour... but... something is unclear in my mind I declare two classes, namely "A", and "B", which has a slot of type A. The class "A" has an initialize method. What I do not understand is that

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",

I am trying to write S4 methods with "difftime" in the signature but am being "informed" (? not a warning or error) that "difftime" is not a class. Nevertheless, dispatch takes place. Should I simply ignore that "information"? Here is a toy example: > setClass("foo", contains = "Date") > setMethod("+", c("foo",

Hello R users, I am trying to make a my first package and I get an error that I can understand. The package is build out of three files (one for functions, 1 for s4 classes and 1 for s4 methods). Once I source them I run package.skeleton( name="TDC" ) within a R session and I get Creating directories ... Creating DESCRIPTION ... Creating Read-and-delete-me ... Saving functions and

I haven't found much on S4 class redefinition; the little I've seen indicates the following is to be expected: 1. setClass("foo", ....) 2. create objects of class foo. 3. execute the same setClass("foo", ...) again (source the same file). 4. objects from step 2 are now NULL. Is that the expected behavior (I ran under R 2.7.1)? Assuming it is, it's kind of

If I have a class Foo, then i can write an S3 method for sum for it: >setClass("Foo",representation(a="integer"));aFoo=new("Foo",a=c(1:3,NA)) >sum.Foo <- function(x,na.rm){print(x);print(na.rm);sum(x at a,na.rm=na.rm)} >sum(aFoo) But how do I write an S4 method for this? All my attempts to do so have foundered. For example

Loading an S4 object from a file without first loading the library sometimes (?, the example below and actual example involves a virtual base class and the show generic) leads to incorrect dispatch (to the base class method). The attached package reproduces the problem. It has setClass("A") setClass("B", contains="A") setMethod("show", "A",

Hi, I would like to create some S4 classes as follows setClass("Father",representation(name="character")) setClass("Son1",contains="Father",representation(par="numeric")) setClass("Son2",contains="Father",representation(par="logical")) Son1<-new("Son1") Son1 at name<-"Son1" Son1 at par<-3

Hello to everybody I am developing a package using R and have the following problem: I used to work in a mixture of S3 and S4 mechanism environment: as a matter of fact, I used to define my classes (say "DB" for illustration) using the setClass function (with representation field), and I was using the S3 implicit mechanism writing the functions: print.DB and plot.DB. Recently, I

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

Dear all, I have an S4 class with a slot "extra" which is a list. I want to be able to add an element called "name" to that list, containing the object "value" (which can be a vector, a dataframe or another S4 object) Obviously setMethod("add.extra",signature=c("PM10Data","character","vector"), function(object,name,value){

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"))

Dear all, I am just writing the documentation file for S4 class 'QualTreeSet' and get the following warning with R CMD check: * checking for missing documentation entries ... WARNING Undocumented S4 methods: generic 'initialize' and siglist 'QualTreeSet' All user-level objects in a package (including S4 classes and methods) should have documentation entries. See the

Dear list, When playing around with the "[" method for S4 classes I noticed that it gets called twice in my example. setClass("testClass", representation(a="character")) setMethod("[", signature(x = "testClass", i = "ANY", j="ANY"), function (x, i, j, ..., drop){ print("void function")

Folks: This is a question about the S4 formal class system. Suppose I have a class, 'foo', defined by: setClass('foo',representation(dat='matrix', id='character') ) I wish to define a '[' method for foo that will extract from the 'dat' slot. I would have thought that the following would work, but it doesn't:

Apologies for asking something that is probably super obvious, i just started with S4 classes and i guess i am not finding documentation that layout the grammar rules and give enough examples. Some questions i am having are these 1. I understand that main method of writing a member function is to write a generic function and setMethod for this particular object. This, however, presumes that there