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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

I think I understand what you're saying now, but I'm still kind of missing the benefit from the approach. As far as I can tell just giving foo formals for the arguments you want it to catch gives you the end result you want, doesn't it? And if the generic has ... in it, you can (if you're very careful) add formals to specific methods that would capture arguments not meant for

Well, the benefit lies in the ability to pass along arguments via `...` to more than one recipient that use *identical argument names* and/or when these recipients are not necessarily located on the same calling stack layer. I'm *not* after a *general* change in the way arguments are dispatched/functions are called as I'm actually a big friend of keepings things quite explicit (thus

Janko, I'm not entirely sure I understand your proposal. Are you suggesting methods be dispatched based on the *contents* of ... (ie which arguments are in there)? This seems like it would be pretty different from how dispatch behaves now, which is entirely class based. Even the dispatching based on ... via dots methods is class based, having nothing to do AFAIK with the argument names. From

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 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

Hi Gabriel, and thanks for answering. I'm basically just trying to find a way to use the power of `...` in more complex scenarios and I'm well aware that this might not be the best approach ;-) Regarding your actual question: "Are you suggesting methods be dispatched based on the *contents* of ... [...]?" Yes, I guess currently I kind of do - but not on the argument *names*

Dear list, today I stumbled across the function ?nsl()? for the first time in order to perform a hostname lookup. According to the R Reference Index (Version 2.9.1, page 1522), the function should be part of the "utils" package. However, I cannot find it in the utils package of my installation(s). I've tried the R-versions 2.8.1, 2.9.0 and 2.9.1. I'd be very thankful if

Dear list, I was wondering if you could help me out in clarifying something: Is it possible to use class "ANY" in slots/fields of formal classes if you a) do not want to restrict valid classes of that field and b) if you are making explicit use of class inheritance? It seems to work in simple scenarios but produces errors when class inheritance comes into play. So I was

Janko and I have been in touch. This is, I believe, a Windows specific issue and a compilation issue. I could be wrong, but that is my impression from other reports. When I have time (?! :-)), I will deal with it. Hopefully this will be very soon. Thanks Janko. D. On 12/14/14, 7:54 PM, Jeroen Ooms wrote: > On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 12:13 PM, Janko Thyson > <janko.thyson at gmail.com

Sorry guys, didn't see your responses before sending mine. Thanks jeroen!! I'll test your version today and get back to you. Gesendet von meinem Smartphone Am 15.12.2014 12:12 schrieb "Janko Thyson" <janko.thyson at gmail.com>: > Thanks a lot for answering. Before I get into it, please note that > everything below bears the big capture "Thanks for trying to

Dear List, when I first started to use S4 classes, I used the function 'completeClassDef()' in order to see the super- and subclasses of a certain class: setClass(Class="A", representation=list(a="numeric")) setClass(Class="B", contains="A", representation=list(b="character")) # Super x <- completeClassDefinition("B")

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',

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

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, 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

On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 12:13 PM, Janko Thyson <janko.thyson at gmail.com> wrote: > > I'd so much appreciate if someone could have a look at this. If I can be of > any help whatsoever, please let me know! > Your current code uses various functions from XML and rvest so it is not a *minimal* reproducible example. Even if you are unfamiliar with C, you should be able to

Dear list, somehow I can't get the Roxygen tag "@example" to work for me. My "Roxygen-Header" of a script containing, say, a function looks like this: #' My header #' #' My description #' #' @param a Blabla. #' @param b Blabla. #' @return \code{TRUE}. #' @callGraphPrimitives #' @references #'

Thanks a lot for answering. Before I get into it, please note that everything below bears the big capture "Thanks for trying to help me at all". 1) Yeah, those examples - quite hard to satisfy everyone's needs ;-) While the one side complained that my past examples regarding this issue were not informative enough, others didn't like the more elaborated version (as seems to be