similar to: Class generator functions for reference classes

Hi The final line of the example in ?setRefClass induces an error: > ## debugging all objects from class mEdit in method $undo() > mEdit$trace(undo, browser) Error in envRefInferField(x, what, getClass(class(x)), selfEnv) : 'undo' is not a valid field or method name for reference class "refGeneratorSlot" $trace tries to embed the trace in the generator object (instead

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, 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

Hello Everyone! Here are a couple of thought/questions on refClasses integration in R core functionality. First, coexistence with S4: > X <- setRefClass("classX", fields = c("a", "b"), + representation = list(c = "character")) > x <- X$new() > x at c <- "sss" > x An object of class "classX"

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 All, It seems that reference classes consume a lot of memory which became a problem for my rather extensive simulation. I prepared a small example. An instance of this minimal class uses about 20K on disk. rm(list=ls(all=TRUE)); MySmallClass = setRefClass("MySmallClass", fields = list( myField = "numeric" ), methods = list( initialize =

Is it possible to override the $new(...) in the reference class generator? I have tried adding a "new" method to the methods of the class, but that is obviously not correct. I have also tried adding it to the class generator, but the class generator still uses the default constructor. As a simple example, this is the current interface: TestClass <- setRefClass

How do you debug methods of a reference class? I've been using mtrace, which is excellent, but i cannot figure out how to mtrace a reference class method. Maybe there is some other way to debug these, for example with ordinary trace? for now i am only able to use options(error=recover), which is not giving me idea where exactly in the code i am once i am stopped on an error. -- View this

Hi list, is there a way to define some kind of private Variable? I would like to prevent the user from manipulating fields on his own, in order to not destroy data structures. The problem is, that as soon as the variable exists in the environment it is accessible via t$secret_value. test <- setRefClass("test", fields=list( secret = function(value){ cat("the function was

This bug appears intermittently in R CMD check when reference classes have finalize methods. The problem is that garbage collection can be run after the methods package is no longer available. It affects (periodically) the Bioconductor AnnotationDbi package as well as packages that contain Rcpp classes. To reproduce: library(methods) a = setRefClass("A",

I get different results from match.call(), according to whether a function is dispatched via S3 or S4. Specifically, when I use S4 dispatch in the following example, the match.call() result is of length 1 less than I expect. I need to add an extra comma to get the same results as in the S3 method. --------example setClass("foo",representation("matrix"))

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 spent a lot of time searching and came up empty handed on the following query. Is there an equivalent to rowSums that does product or cumulative product and avoids use of apply or looping? I found a rowProd in a package but it was a convenience function for apply. As part of a likelihood calculation called from optim, I?m computing products and cumulative products of rows of matrices with

Dear John and others, I've been wondering about whether there's any way to indicate a "nil" reference class object, which will represent "no value", and be tested for, but not fail the internal type checking. NULL is the obvious choice (or seems so to me), but can only be used if an explicit class union is created: > Foo <- setRefClass("Foo") > Bar

I've found that reference class objects tend to behave like plain old environments wrt field access, unless a method on e.g. $<- is explicitly defined. Here is a code snippet: library(methods) Foo <- setRefClass("Foo") foo <- Foo$new() foo$a <- 2 # why does this succeed? not a valid field! ## set a silly $<- method setReplaceMethod("$", "Foo",

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

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

Hi, I have a matrix and time series "xmat". I have no problem executing any matrix functions except t(xmat) which gives the following error message. My question if "xmat" is a matrix why I can not execute this matrix function?? converting the time series and matrix into a data frame solves the problem >dim(xmat) [1] 98 7 > t(xmat) Error in "tsp<-"(*tmp*,

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, I'm trying to create a package that contains reference class definitions from which users can create reference objects, but there seems to be something awry. My toy example creates an empty package via package.skeleton('TestClass') to which I add the following R code: TestClass <- setRefClass('TestClass',fields=c('name')) Unfortunately my R console output