Re: [Rd] format.data.frame containing S4 class with format method

2010-05-17 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Sun, 16 May 2010, Daniel Murphy wrote: Hi again, I must be misunderstanding something fundamental about how an S4 class stored in a data.frame can be persuaded to print according to a desired format. Rather, you are misunderstanding something fundamental about the 'methods' package. It i

[Rd] format.data.frame containing S4 class with format method

2010-05-16 Thread Daniel Murphy
Hi again, I must be misunderstanding something fundamental about how an S4 class stored in a data.frame can be persuaded to print according to a desired format. The help page says: format.data.frame formats the data frame column by column, applying the appropriate method of format for each column