Hi again,
This happens with R-2.4.0 and R-devel.
Cheers,
H.
Herve Pages wrote:
> Hi again,
>
>
> Here is a very simplified version of a class hierarchy
> defined in the Biobase package (Bioconductor). I post
> here because this seems to be an S4 related problem:
>
> setClass("A", representation(name="character"))
> setMethod("initialize", "A", function(.Object) [EMAIL PROTECTED] <- "I'm
> an A"; .Object})
>
> setClass("Ab", contains="A")
> setMethod("initialize", "Ab", function(.Object) callNextMethod(.Object))
>
> setClass("Abc", contains="Ab")
>
> setClass("Abcd", contains = c("Abc"))
>
> Now if I do:
>
> tmp1 <- new("Abc")
> tmp2 <- new("Abcd")
>
> I get the following warning:
>
> Warning message:
> Ambiguous method selection for "initialize", target "Abcd" (the
> first of the signatures shown will be used)
> Abc
> Ab
> in: .findInheritedMethods(classes, fdef, mtable)
>
> I don't really understand why .findInheritedMethods is
> complaining here...
> And if I don't do 'tmp1 <- new("Abc")' before I
> do 'tmp2 <- new("Abcd")', then I don't get the warning
> anymore!
>
> Does anybody have an explanation for this?
>
>
> Thanks,
> H.
>
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