Is setOldClass the solution?
e.g.
x <- list()
class(x) <- "foo"
setGeneric("bar", function(x) "bar generic")
setOldClass("foo")
setMethod("bar", "foo", function(x) "bar foo")
bar(x)
On 7 October 2014 10:00, Dario Strbenac <dstr7...@uni.sydney.edu.au> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am writing an interface to some functions from the CRAN package pamr, which
> is poorly written.
>
> I have a S4 method I declared with setMethod. I'd like to provide a signature
> of "pamrtrained" which is the class of object that training creates. The last
> two lines of code of pamr.train are :
>
> class(junk) = "pamrtrained"
> junk
>
> How can I dispatch on these kinds of objects, other than making the signature
> be "ANY" and checking the class inside the S4 method ? Might these kinds of
> class assignments be deprecated in a future version of R ?
>
> --------------------------------------
> Dario Strbenac
> PhD Student
> University of Sydney
> Camperdown NSW 2050
> Australia
>
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