To elaborate a bit - the reason that the behavior of the Matrix
package changed is because I uploaded a new version that has a
NAMESPACE file. One result, as Brian Ripley points out, is that
direct calls to method functions, such as
solve.Matrix(foo, bar)
that previously were acceptable now result in errors. This call would
only produce a useful result if inherits(foo, "Matrix") is TRUE, in
which case it is equivalent to
solve(foo, bar)
(unless another method for "solve" would take precedence). This
version continues to work as expected - at least I hope so.
The moral of the story is that you should call the generic function,
not the method function.
This change is the first stage in a major rewrite of the Matrix
package that will include
- a switch from the underlying lapack++ code, which is
no longer under active development, to C code such as cblas and
clapack and, perhaps, FLAME
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/flame
- switch to S4 classes and methods
- addition of sparse matrix methods based on TAUCS, UMFPACK, AMD,
and, perhaps, METIS
- moving the pdMat classes from the lme4 package to the Matrix
package which I think is a more natural place for them.
Stay tuned.
Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Note:
>
> > library(Matrix)
> > getS3method("solve", "Matrix")
> function (a, b, tol = 0, transpose = FALSE, ...)
> {
> if (missing(b))
> return(.Call("R_LapackPP_solve", a, NULL, PACKAGE = "Matrix"))
> .Call("R_LapackPP_solve", a, b, PACKAGE = "Matrix")
> }
> <environment: namespace:Matrix>
>
> It's a *method* and is meant only to be called via the generic solve().
>
> On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
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> > Dear R developers,
> >
> > this morning I started experiencing a bizarre problem with the
> > solve.Matrix() command in the Matrix library: basically R does not
> > recognise such command any longer, no mettar if re-installation of the
> > library is done. Any insight from youwill be highly appreciated;
> > thanks in advance, best regards,
> >
> > Stefano Conti
> >
> >
> >
> > --please do not edit the information below--
> >
> > Version:
> > platform = i386-pc-mingw32
> > arch = i386
> > os = mingw32
> > system = i386, mingw32
> > status =
> > major = 1
> > minor = 8.0
> > year = 2003
> > month = 10
> > day = 08
> > language = R
> >
> > Windows 2000 Professional (build 2195) Service Pack 4.0
> >
> > Search Path:
> > .GlobalEnv, package:Matrix, package:methods, package:ctest, package:mva,
> > package:modreg, package:nls, package:ts, Autoloads, package:base
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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