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the following returns an error in an 'exists' call on my machine MyEnv <- new.env() setClass("Numeric", "numeric", where=MyEnv) franklin parlamis > version _ platform powerpc-apple-darwin8.7.0 arch powerpc os darwin8.7.0 system powerpc, darwin8.7.0 status beta major 2 minor 4.0 year

Hello. This question concerns the Methods package. I have created a new class and am trying to set a method for it for S4 group generic "Summary". I have run into some signature problems. An example: > setClass("track", representation(x="numeric", y="character")) [1] "track" > setGeneric("max", group="Summary")

On the help page "DateTimeClasses {base}" it says: "One can add or subtract a number of seconds or a difftime object from a date-time object, but not add two date-time objects." However, > x<-Sys.time(); y<-Sys.time()+3600 > diff<-y-x > x; y; diff [1] "2005-11-23 19:58:20 GMT" [1] "2005-11-23 20:58:20 GMT" Time difference of 1 hours

i think these two code snippets exhibit a bug. they are identical but for the inclusion of an initial line in snippet [2] [1] setMethod("Math", signature(x = "numeric"), function(x) "Works") getGeneric("sqrt")(4) [2] getGeneric("sqrt")(4) setMethod("Math", signature(x = "numeric"), function(x) "Works")

I am having some trouble creating a hierarchy of virtual classes (akin to the class structure in the 'Matrix' package). I think they arise from my not understanding the best way to specify virtual subclasses of a virtual class. please see questions below code. setClass("mom") setClass("kid1", representation("mom", "VIRTUAL"))

please see the code below. foo2 fails to dispatch correctly, but foo does fine. i have tried 'cacheMetaData(1)' and a number of different variants of 'cacheGenericsMetaData', on the possibility there is a caching issue. but i still can't sort it out. also one general question: does it really matter what's in the body of the function definition in a

I am having a bit of a struggle deciding when to use attributes with S4 objects. Clearly the 'class' attribute will always be present. But it is not clear to me whether the architects of the methods package intend that other attributes, such as 'names', will still be used when the S4 implementation is complete. I notice that, when you create a formal object from an

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'

'methods' package feature request / discussion starter: perhaps a call to 'validObject' should occur at part of any slot replacement operation (and the operation not be carried out if it would invalidate the object)? this may prevent the need for prophylactic 'validObject' calls in other user-defined functions. in the example below, the slot assignment occurs

self-sanity check prior to filing a bug report: attempted replacement that generates an error leaves a '*tmp*' variable in the global environment. test <- 1:10 test[2:4] <- expression(e) ls() i've read section 3.4.4 of the "R Language Definition" which discusses the mechanism for replacement, and it is not clear to me whether this was intended, but i suspect

From: Vitalie S. <vitosmail <at> rambler.ru> Subject: Bug in cut.POSIXt Newsgroups: gmane.comp.lang.r.general Date: 2009-10-15 15:47:48 GMT (1 hour and 29 minutes ago) Hello Everyone, Before reporting decided to post here first: tt <- structure(c(1254238817, 1254238859, 1254238969, 1254239080), class = c("POSIXt",

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Thanks for this clarification. I have learned in the meantime that it is necessary to be very careful when using all these POSIX things. As another example, here is something that made me scratch my head just yesterday: When I create a sequence of days that happens to start before and ends in daylight savings time, I seem to lose a day: > seq(from = strptime("20030329",

Suggestions from both Prof Brian Ripley and Gabor Grothendiec solved my problem. From Prof Ripley: >This is a problem of your OS: your example works on all of mine. > >Can't you change the origin in chron? If not, you should certainly be >able to do > >as.POSIXct(strptime(as.character(testDATES), "%m/%d/%y")) This still resulted in NA's on my system. >

Can someone help me understand the following behavior of "[<-" ? If I define a simple class based on a matrix, the [<- operation only inserts into the first column: > x <- matrix(rnorm(10),nrow=5,ncol=2) > class(x) <- "foo" > "[<-.foo" <- function(x, i, j, value) { + if(missing(i)) i <- 1:nrow(x) + if(missing(j)) j <-

What is the recommended class for time of day (independent of calendar date)? And what is the recommended way to get the time of day from a POSIXct object? (Not a string representation, but a computable representation.) I have looked in the man page for DateTimeClasses, in the Time Series Analysis Task View and in Spector's Data Manipulation book but haven't found these. Clearly I can

> Henrik Bengtsson: > > I'm looking for a way to get the length of an object 'x' as given by > base data type without dispatching on class. The performance improvement you're looking for is implemented in the latest version of pqR (pqR-2016-10-24, see pqR-project.org), along with corresponding improvements in several other circumstances where unclass(x) does not

Dear all, I successfully set up a local MySQL-database. Connecting via RODBC is not problem, the same in fetching 3 of 4 tables. But trying to connect to table 4 fails. > author<-sqlFetch(test,"author") Error in fromchar(unclass(x)) : character string is not in a standard unambiguous format In principle I understand that error message, but I don't know any solution.

I'm looking for a way to get the length of an object 'x' as given by base data type without dispatching on class. Something analogous to how .subset()/.subset2(), e.g. a .length() function. I know that I can do length(unclass(x)), but that will trigger the creation of a new object unclass(x) which I want to avoid because 'x' might be very large. Here's a dummy example