Wolski wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> Here a simple example.
>
> setClass("myclass"
> ,representation(info="character")
> ,contains="matrix"
> )
>
> rownames(dd)<-c("a","b")
> tt<-new("myclass",dd)
> #the source of pain.
> as(tt,"matrix")<-matrix(1,3,3)
> Error: length of dimnames [1] not equal to array extent
>
> Is there a different way to do what I would like to do (I would like to change the
> @.Data and all its attributes in the object)?
It's not particularly a problem with as(). Your class just doesn't
behave as you expect.
"matrix" is not a formal class with slots. (It isn't even an S3 class
in R; attr(x,"class") is NULL.) So you cannot expect classes extending
"matrix" to know what a matrix is supposed to be.
Part of the problem is that matrix objects sometimes have dimnames and
sometimes don't. And there is basic code in R that assumes or applies
constraints on the "dim" or "dimnames".
In S-Plus, "matrix" is a formal class, always having a slot for
dimnames. R has not gone that route, at least not yet.
It may be possible to define a new class, "Matrix", say, that looks like
a matrix to old-style code but has a formal definition. But the details
are likely to be tricky, and it's definitely a topic for r-devel, not
r-help.
John Chambers
>
>
> Eryk.
>
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