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Hi all, I don't understand why this does not what I expect : ## code start here ############## setClass("num",representation(x="numeric")) num<-function(x) new("num",x=x) add<-function(e1,e2) { cat("Computing ",deparse(substitute(e1)),"+",deparse(substitute(e2)),"\n") e1@x+e2@x }

Dear all, I am trying to define "+" method for my newly defined s4 class which is as follows: setClass("Me", sealed=F,representation(x1 = "numeric", x2 = "character")) new1 <- new("Me", x1=2, x2="comment1") new2 <- new("Me", x1=3, x2="comment1") setMethod("+", "Me",

hi. below is a small test case (hopefully minimal, though i'm still a bit confused about initializers). i would have guessed (and maybe i still would have been right) that one could re-use the name of a generic function for functions with different numbers of arguments. in the case below, class A's bB() queries the status of a single A object, so bB(A) (where here "A" is an

Full_Name: Bert Gunter Version: 2.1.1 OS: Windows 2000 Submission from: (NULL) (192.12.78.250) There appears to be either a bug or documentation problem in setMethod/setGeneric with how default arguments are handled. The setMethod Help says: ****** Method definitions can have default expressions for arguments. If those arguments are then missing in the call to the generic function, the default

Hi, Is there a way to define "+" so that "a"+"b" returns "ab" ? > setMethod("+",c("character","character"),paste) Error in setMethod("+", c("character", "character"), paste) : the method for function '+' and signature e1="character", e2="character" is sealed

Hello, If the signature of a method defines which generic it implements then I'm confused about why this minimal example I invented won't work : setGeneric("myFun", function(rs, ...){standardGeneric("myFun")}) setGeneric("myFun", function(cs, ...){standardGeneric("myFun")}) setMethod("myFun", "numeric", function(rs, colour =

Hi, i have used S4 classes to implement a unified access to random number generators (package rstream on CRAN). I have used a construct to allow optional arguments: if(!isGeneric("rstream.sample")) setGeneric("rstream.sample", function(stream,...) standardGeneric("rstream.sample")) setMethod("rstream.sample",

i believe the following is true but would appreciate confirmation that it is intended behavior and will continue: if a default argument is employed in the definition of a generic function, and the generic is called with the argument in question (call it 'ARG') missing, then the method for signature (..., ARG = "missing", ...) will be called by 'standardGeneric'

Hallo, I have a set of S4 and S3 classes together in one script. While running this script I create a lot of new functions and objects An example for S3 and S4 classes: ## S3 classes pt <- list(x=1,y=2) class(pt) <- "xypoint" xpos <- function(x, ...) UseMethod("xpos") xpos.xypoint <- function(x) x$x ypos <- function(x, ...) UseMethod("ypos")

I feel tedious when I define a S4 class and the methods. For each method, I have to call both setMethod and setGeneric (or both setReplaceMethod and setGeneric). I would like a more compact grammar so that I can reduce the key strokes. I'm wondering if there is a better way available. setClass( Class='A', representation=representation( x='numeric' )

Hi I want to create a new generic method, but I end up with an error (evaluation nested too deeply). see the transcript below. The function beginYear.Fun() works, but not beginYear. I have no idea why. Any ideas welcome, Rainer > setClass("fun", representation(x = "numeric")) [1] "fun" > new("fun") An object of class ?fun? Slot "x":

Hi the list I am creating a package and I have a problem to define a S4 method for plot. I define a class 'A' and a class 'B'. I want to define a function plot for signature c(A,missing) and another method plot for signature c(A,B). My code is the following : In /package/R/ directory: --- main.R --- setGeneric("plot",function(x,y,...){standardGeneric("plot")})

Hi, I want to set a default value in a method of a generic function. This seems as though it should be possible. From R help on setMethod... Method definitions can have default expressions for arguments. If those arguments are then missing in the call to the generic function, the default expression in the method is used. If the method definition has no default for the

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

Hello. I am trying to write an S4 method for rbind(). I have a class of objects called 'mdm', and I want to be able to rbind() them to one another. I do not want the method for rbind() to coerce anything to an mdm object. I want rbind(x1,x2,x1,x2) to work as expected [ie rbind() should take any number of arguments]. This is what I have so far: setGeneric(".rbind_pair",

Dear list, I was wondering how to best implement some sort of a "plugin" paradigm using R methods and the dispatcher: Say we have a function/method ('foo') that does something useful, but that should be open for extension in ONE specific area by OTHERS using my package. Of course they could go ahead and write a whole new 'foo' method including the features they'd

Hi all, I would like to access the name of a variable passed to an S4 method. For a function, I would do this: f <- function(x) as.character(substitute(x)) This also works for a the examples I have tried for methods that do not have extra, non-dispatch args: setGeneric("A", function(x, ...) standardGeneric("A")) setMethod("A",

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, ...) { } )

Hello everybody R version 2.4.0 alpha (2006-09-15 r39323), MacOSX 10.4.7 Next S4 problem. I have "brob" objects that are large real numbers, and now I want "glub" numbers that are to be a pair of glubs that represent complex numbers. I want to define binary operator "+" so that if either the left or right argument are glubs, it uses .ArithGlub. If either

What a delicious example! (I'm taking the liberty of sharing it with r-devel, since it raises some good issues.) You have two questions, presumably: 1 - how could the order of the setMethod calls make a difference in the results? 2 - what's causing the infinite loop & how could it be avoided, reliably? Second question first. The danger sign is the "vector" method: