similar to: NextMethod() and argument laziness

S Programming by Venables and Ripley (page 78) has the example listed at the end of this email. However, I get the following error when I try the example. I don't understand the descriptions of NextMethod on its help page. Could somebody let me know how to fix the error of this example? > test(x) c1 c2 Error in NextMethod() : no method to invoke Calls: test -> test.c1 -> NextMethod

Hi, although I've done S3 dispatching for more than a decade now, I think I managed to overlook/avoid the following pitfall when using NextMethod(): If you explicitly pass argument '...' to NextMethod(), you will effectively pass those argument twice to the "next" method! EXAMPLE: foo0 <- function(...) UseMethod("foo0"); foo1 <- function(...)

The example is invoking NextMethod via an anonymous function, which is not allowed (see documentation for NextMethod). Normally one gets a runtime error "'NextMethod' called from an anonymous function", but not here as the anonymous function is called via do.call. I will fix so that there is a runtime error in this case as well, thanks for uncovering this problem. I

On 02/22/2018 12:07 PM, I?aki ?car wrote: > 2018-02-22 10:29 GMT+01:00 Tomas Kalibera <tomas.kalibera at gmail.com>: >> The example is invoking NextMethod via an anonymous function, which is not >> allowed (see documentation for NextMethod). > Thanks for your response. I definitely missed that bit. > >> Normally one gets a runtime >> error

>> One clear moral seems to be don't do anything more inside a >> generic function than you really need to do. Keep it *very* >> simple indeed. >> > I recall JMC saying something like, all generic functions > should be one line long; a call to the appropriate UseMethod. It certainly is encouraging to know that others also have been confused by aspects of

Hi all, Not sure if this belongs to R-devel or R-package-devel. Anyways... Suppose we have objects of class c("foo", "bar"), and there are two S3 methods c.foo, c.bar. In c.foo, I'm trying to modify the dots and forward the dispatch using NextMethod without any success. This is what I've tried so far: c.foo <- function(..., recursive=FALSE) { dots <-

My question is when the object argument of NexthMethod be used? In the following example, weather object argument is used will not affects the result. ### foo=function(x) {UseMethod("foo")} foo.cls1=function(x) { x=x+1;class(x)<-"ncls" NextMethod() } foo.ncls=function(x) { cat("ncls\n") } foo.cls2=function(x) { cat("cls2\n");print(x) }

I'm a day-old R newbie (but a war-weary S veteran), with couple of first-day questions: In R 0.61, this code fails. Ops.test <- function(e1,e2) { e1 <- NextMethod(.Generic) e1 } x <- 4 class(x) <- "test" y <- x < 3 The error message is "Error in NextMethod(.Generic) : negative length vectors are not allowed.". I assume it is a bug.

I found writing the following default method the for the generic function "julian" causes R to crash. julian.default <- function(x, ...) { x <- as.Date(x) NextMethod("julian", x, ...) } Here is a test example > m <- as.Date("1972-09-27") + 0:10 > m [1] "1972-09-27" "1972-09-28" "1972-09-29"

I'm running into some hard-to-understand behavior with the evaluation environment when NextMethod is used. I'm using square-bracket indexing into objects, and the evaluation environment of the expression inside the square brackets seems to change depending on what kind of comparison operators are used. This behavior happens when the following conditions are met (this is what I've

2018-02-22 12:39 GMT+01:00 Tomas Kalibera <tomas.kalibera at gmail.com>: > On 02/22/2018 12:07 PM, I?aki ?car wrote: >> >> 2018-02-22 10:29 GMT+01:00 Tomas Kalibera <tomas.kalibera at gmail.com>: >>> >>> The example is invoking NextMethod via an anonymous function, which is >>> not >>> allowed (see documentation for NextMethod).

I am encountering difficulty with NextMethod in 0.50-a4. We created a class of groupedData objects which are data.frames with additional attributes. The most important attribute is a formula describing roles of some of the variables in the experimental design. The class of such objects ends in "groupedData", "data.frame". The print method for the groupedData class simply

Hello, Within the development of a package, I would need to build a specific method for the "pmin" function. I first make "pmin" generic pmin <- function (..., na.rm = FALSE) UseMethod("pmin") pmin.default <- base::pmin Now, within my new method, I would like to change the arguments in . (dot dot dot) before sending it to the NextMethod.

I have another problem with NextMethod. Not sure if its related to the last problem. In this example, we have a generic called ff with methods for AsIs and test classes. We call the generic with an object of AsIs class. The corresponding method adds 1 to it and then changes the class to test followed by issuing a NextMethod. However, that results in this error (using R 2.0.0, 2004-10-04

I've set up a repo with a reproducible example of the issue described in my last email: https://github.com/Enchufa2/dispatchS3dots I?aki 2018-02-20 19:33 GMT+01:00 I?aki ?car <i.ucar86 at gmail.com>: > Hi all, > > Not sure if this belongs to R-devel or R-package-devel. Anyways... > > Suppose we have objects of class c("foo", "bar"), and there are two

"[.ggobiDataset" <- function(x, ..., drop=FALSE) { x <- as.data.frame(x) NextMethod("[", x) } "[[.ggobiDataset" <- function(x, ..., drop=FALSE) { x <- as.data.frame(x) NextMethod("[[", x) } "$.ggobiDataset" <- function(x, ..., drop=FALSE) { x <- as.data.frame(x) NextMethod("$", x) } > class(x) [1]

Hello,   ###  I created two classes "A" and "B". "A" is the superclass of "B".   setClass("A", representation(s1="numeric"),prototype=prototype(s1=8)) setClass("B",contains="A",representation(s2="character"),prototype=list(s2="hi")) myA=new("A") myB=new("B")   ####  I created

I'd like to have a class A that computes a likelihood, and a subclass B that computes the same likelihood by sometimes throws in an additional term (B includes measurement error). So B's likelihood needs to call A's, and then (sometimes) multiply by an additional term. It sounds as if, in the S3 scheme, NextMethod is supposed to do this: like.A <- function(stuff) compute value

Dear Prof. John Fox, ? Sat, 21 Sep 2024 12:47:49 -0400 John Fox <jfox at mcmaster.ca> ?????: > NextMethod(formula(object), data=eval(object$call$data), > contrasts.arg=object$contrasts) The use of NextMethod worries me a bit. It will work as intended as long as everyone gives fully-named arguments to the generic, without relying on positional or partial

Dear list members, After further testing, I found that the following simplified version of model.matrix.lme(), which omits passing xlev to the default method, is more robust. The previous version generated spurious warnings in some circumstances. model.matrix.lme <- function(object, ...){ data <- object$data if (is.null(data)){ NextMethod(formula(object),