Rainer M Krug <r.m.k...@gmail.com> writes:
> 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":
> numeric(0)
>
>> setGeneric(
> "beginYear",
> function(object, ...) standardGeneric("beginYear")
> )
> setGeneric(
> + "beginYear",
> + function(object, ...) standardGeneric("beginYear")
> + )
> [1] "beginYear"
>
>> beginYear.Fun = function(x) x^2
>> beginYear.Fun(4)
> [1] 16
Are you confusing S3 and S4 method systems? The .Fun has no special
meaning in S4
>> setMethod(
> "beginYear",
> signature( object = "numeric" ),
> beginYear
> )
here the beginYear,numeric-method is defined to invoke the beginYear
generic, so you end up calling yourself. You might have meant
setMethod(beginYear, signature(object="numeric"), beginYear.Fun)
but I would have written
setMethod(beginYear, signature(object="numeric"),
function(object, ...) object^2)
Martin
> setMethod(
> + "beginYear",
> + signature( object = "numeric" ),
> + beginYear
> + )
> [1] "beginYear"
>
>> beginYear.Fun(4)
> [1] 16
>
>> beginYear(4)
> Error: evaluation nested too deeply: infinite recursion /
> options(expressions=)?
>>
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