If one accidentally calls match(x, obj), where obj is any S4 instance,
the result is NA.
I was expecting an error because, in general, if a match method is not
defined for a particular S4 class, I don't know what a reasonable
default could be. Specifically, here's what I see
setClass("FOO", representation(a="numeric"))
foo <- new("FOO", a=10)
match("a", foo)
[1] NA
And my thinking is that this should be an error, along the lines of
match("a", function(x) x)
Unless, of course, a specific method for match, table="FOO" has been
defined.
+ seth
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