"Byron Ellis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi All,
>
> I find myself wondering if there is a canonical means of achieving the
> multiple-dispatch version of 'super'? Specifically, I have a set of
> classes
>
> A, B, X and Y where B extends A
>
> and a method Foo with the signature (X,A,Y) and I'd like to implement
> Foo with the signature (X,B,Y) such that it calls Foo_(X,A,Y) and then
> does "other stuff." This gets a bit complicated with multiple
> inheritance but at the moment the best I can think to do is an
> explicit call to selectMethod.
I would expect callNextMethod to work in most cases. Have you tried
that?
setMethod("Foo", c("X", "B", "Y"),
function(x, b, y) {
ans <- callNextMethod()
## more
})
+ seth
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