Re: [Rd] S4 method dispatch sometimes leads to incorrect when object loaded from file?

2015-05-12 Thread Martin Morgan
On 05/12/2015 05:31 AM, Martin Maechler wrote: Martin Morgan on Mon, 11 May 2015 10:18:07 -0700 writes: > On 05/10/2015 08:19 AM, Martin Morgan wrote: >> Loading an S4 object from a file without first loading the library sometimes (?, >> the example below and actual exampl

Re: [Rd] S4 method dispatch sometimes leads to incorrect when object loaded from file?

2015-05-12 Thread Martin Maechler
> Martin Morgan > on Mon, 11 May 2015 10:18:07 -0700 writes: > On 05/10/2015 08:19 AM, Martin Morgan wrote: >> Loading an S4 object from a file without first loading the library sometimes (?, >> the example below and actual example involves a virtual base class and the s

Re: [Rd] S4 method dispatch sometimes leads to incorrect when object loaded from file?

2015-05-11 Thread Martin Morgan
On 05/10/2015 08:19 AM, Martin Morgan wrote: Loading an S4 object from a file without first loading the library sometimes (?, the example below and actual example involves a virtual base class and the show generic) leads to incorrect dispatch (to the base class method). The attached package repr

Re: [Rd] S4 Method Dispatch for Class Defined as Attribute

2014-10-07 Thread Sven E. Templer
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 wrote: > Hello, > > I am writing an interface to some functions from the

Re: [Rd] S4 method dispatch

2011-09-30 Thread John Chambers
On 9/30/11 12:48 AM, Edzer Pebesma wrote: Thanks, John! I did not manage to figure out how the strict= works, but changed class inheritance such that simple inheritance did not take place. I see you're advocating to use the contains= to stress inheritance; back in 2005, I followed the green b

Re: [Rd] S4 method dispatch

2011-09-30 Thread Edzer Pebesma
Thanks, John! I did not manage to figure out how the strict= works, but changed class inheritance such that simple inheritance did not take place. I see you're advocating to use the contains= to stress inheritance; back in 2005, I followed the green book, which did not yet have this. If I n

Re: [Rd] S4 method dispatch

2011-09-18 Thread John Chambers
The distinction here is "simple inheritance" ("Software for Data Analysis", p. 346). Your first example is simple inheritance (would be clearer if you used the contains= argument). In the second version you supply an explicit coerce method, so method dispatch can no longer just pass in the o

Re: [Rd] S4 method dispatch

2011-09-18 Thread Edzer Pebesma
As a follow-up, I managed to isolate the problem I sent earlier this week, and reduced it to a small case (I'm using R 2.13.1, i486-pc-linux-gnu (32-bit)). The following script does what I expect: setClass("A", representation(x = "numeric")) setClass("AB", representation("A")) setGeneric("doNot

Re: [Rd] S4 method dispatch and namespaces: why is default method selected

2009-05-19 Thread Michał Bojanowski
Hi Martin, >> However, when I put all these in a package with Depends field in >> DESCRIPTION having: methods, pixmap, and with the following namespace: >> >> >> importFrom("graphics", "plot") >> exportClasses("myclass") >> exportMethods("plot") >> >> >> things stop working (this is from package t

Re: [Rd] S4 method dispatch and namespaces: why is default method selected

2009-05-18 Thread Martin Morgan
Hi Michał -- Michał Bojanowski writes: > Hi, > > I ran into the following peculiarity involving S4 method dispatch and > namespaces. > > I develop a package which have a namespace and which depends on 'pixmap' > package, which itself does not have a namespace. > > Now, in my package I have a cla

Re: [Rd] S4 Method dispatch in recent 2.4.0alpha

2006-09-13 Thread Oosting, J. \(PATH\)
I have tried it on the patched version of R, and it works now. Thanks, Jan Van: John Chambers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Although there is not enough information to be sure, this may be related to an issue uncovered in other testing, for which a patch has ju

Re: [Rd] S4 Method dispatch in recent 2.4.0alpha

2006-09-13 Thread John Chambers
Although there is not enough information to be sure, this may be related to an issue uncovered in other testing, for which a patch has just been committed. The issue arises if the same generic function is defined in several packages. For example, Matrix and msbase both have methods for the p

Re: [Rd] S4 Method dispatch in recent 2.4.0alpha

2006-09-12 Thread Oosting, J. \(PATH\)
Your suggestions worked ok in the example, but in my case there is yet another package that implements a plot method. Now the plotting from within the package works, but plotting from outside the package, on the console, gives an error as if plot.default is invoked. > class(myplot) [1] "gt.barplo

Re: [Rd] S4 Method dispatch in recent 2.4.0alpha

2006-09-11 Thread John Chambers
Good example. The basic problem is in the NAMESPACE file: importFrom(graphics, plot) But the version of plot() in the graphics package is not a generic function. Therefore, when your mpplot() calls it there is no method dispatch. You need to import the generic version of plot() from minipk