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I am not sure if what I am asking below should be discussed under r-help or r-devel, so please feel free to move over to r-devel. This is a spin off from Gordon Smyth's question about generic functions and Robert Gentleman's reply. I have tried to raise the question before and I am sure this has been discussed by others, but never on the r-help list what I can see. My concern is that

I am not sure if what I am asking below should be discussed under r-help or r-devel, so please feel free to move over to r-devel. This is a spin off from Gordon Smyth's question about generic functions and Robert Gentleman's reply. I have tried to raise the question before and I am sure this has been discussed by others, but never on the r-help list what I can see. My concern is that

On 09/08/2018 5:45 PM, Abs Spurdle wrote: > I apologize if this issue has been raised before. > > I really like object oriented S3 programming. > However, there's one feature of object oriented S3 programming that I don't > like. > Generic functions can have arguments other than dots. > > Lets say you have an R package with something like: > >

I apologize if this issue has been raised before. I really like object oriented S3 programming. However, there's one feature of object oriented S3 programming that I don't like. Generic functions can have arguments other than dots. Lets say you have an R package with something like: print.myfunction (f, ...) { dosomething (f, ...) } Noting that I use function objects a lot. R CMD

I found a tutorial for creating classes using generic functions ? S3 way ! It was short description so I couldn't grok in full its usage ... So far so good, what i currently do is something like this : Blah <- function(data,...) UseMethod('Blah') Blah.default <- function( ...... ) { self = .... class(self) <- 'Blah' self } Blah.some_method <-

Abs et al, Ok, so I have just gone and re-read the docs again. My language was a more absolute than it should have been; *however*, I was still correct for the cases under discussion. From ?UseMethod (emphasis mine) An R object is a data object which has a ?class? attribute (and this can be tested by ?is.object?). A class attribute is a character vector giving the names of the

Hello everybody. My issue arise when I build a package with my functions. This package is for personal purposes only and it will not submitted to CRAN. Anyway, this may be an opportunity for myself to clear the S3 methods concept. I read the R manual and some books about R programming but they are usually S4 oriented. I call a function plot.days(). When I check the package I obtain some

A general goal for the next version of R is to make S4 and S3 play better together. As mentioned in a previous thread, one limitation has been that S3 generic functions, specifically the UseMethod() call, did not make use of S4 inheritance when dispatching on general S4 objects. This has been fixed in a version committed today (updated to rev 52267). The code change is not large, but it

Hi all, I've noticed a couple of small bugs/documentation errors related to S3 internal and group generics: * In ?S3groupGeneric, log2 and log10 are not listed as group generics, even though they are in the equivalent S4 groups, and are the source code for do_log1arg contains DispatchGroup("Math", ...) * As well as log2 and log10, tools:::.get_internal_S3_generics() fails to

Hi, I've been using the package "graph" in the BioConductor assortment and writing some functions based on its classes. My question is not specific to this package or BioConductor (I think), but it serves as a useful example. I recently wanted to look at the code for the function "edgeMatrix" for the class "graphNEL". Usually I would type > func.foo and

Hi, In one of my packages (maxLik), I would like to add an S3 method, where the generic function (estfun) is defined in another package (sandwich). Everything works fine if my package "Depends" on the other package and I import the generic function "estfun" from the "sandwich" package and define the new method in the NAMESPACE file. However, I prefer not to load the

Dear Iago, The R S3 object system works as expected here, using the first available method processing the class vector from left to right. The problem is that the broom package doesn't export the confint.geeglm() method but rather reserves it for internal use. I can't think why the package authors chose to do that but you could ask them. The following therefore works (following on with

(a new thread, on purpose) >>>>> "RobG" == Robert Gentleman <rgentlem at fhcrc.org> >>>>> on Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:55:50 -0700 writes: RobG> Hi, I just committed a change to R-devel so that if RobG> debug is called on an S3 generic function, all methods RobG> will also automatically have debug turned on for them RobG>

> you had seemed to be presenting it as something new in 3.5.3. I would be surprised if the behavior doesn't go all the way back to whenever head.function was added. My bad. I'm just surprised I've never noticed these problems before. > S3 classes have no formal definitions at all > I'm not sure what is clear about that, or what class hierarchy you're talking about

Dear R developers, As you might have noticed, recent changes in R-dev will not allow the definition of S3 methods with S4 classes. But until now, we have defined "time<-" in our 'timeSeries' package as an S3 generic because other packages are using the same function. Indeed, if we had defined it as an S4 generic, the other packages would not coexist well with ours.

Dear developers, the implementation of S4 generics for existing S3 ones in the base package is concerned to be a threat to quick startup times [1]. But since S4 is promoted, and S3/S4 interoperability a pain when package developing [2], are there efforts to improve the situation? E.g. an S3 free system, etc. A good thing [2] is the package 'stats4', including some setGeneric calls (e.g.

Hi, Let's say one has an object with multiple classes, and a generic function to apply to it has associated S3 methods for more than one of those classes. Further, the method it chooses (I do not know how; some order in the class vector?) is not the suitable one and it produces an error. Would there be some way to make the generic function to choice the correct method, or in case that for

PkgA wishes to write a method for 'unique' on S4 class 'A'. ?Methods indicates that one should setGeneric("unique") setClass("A") unique.A <- function(x, incomparables=FALSE, ...) {} setMethod(unique, "A", unique.A) Both S3 and S4 methods need to be exported in the NAMESPACE import(methods) S3method(unique, A)

Hi, A few comments from a fairly experienced R user who worked for several years on a R-based bioinformatics analysis framework. I don't want to misrepresent anyone's views, but... There are real disadvantages to the "objects-as-C-structs" and functions/methods which "mutate" based on argument type. i.e. S4. (1)Novices simply don't understand it.

Hi, I'm having some trouble setting methods for the qr family of functions. I believe I have distilled my misunderstanding in the code snippet below: foo <- function(x, ...) UseMethod("foo") foo.default <- function(x) { } # foo setGeneric(name = "foo", useAsDefault = foo) setMethod("foo", signature(x="bar"), function(x, ...) { } )