It is recommended that you use a package for this sort of thing.
When a package is loaded, the S4 methods it contains are merged into the
metadata. When the global environment is loaded, they are not. Call
'cacheMetaData(1)' to do so.
[This looks like a bug: cacheMetaData is called on .GlobalEnv in the
startup code for package methods, but seems not to work when called from
there. I think this is because package methods is not at that point on
the search path (the call is from .onLoad) and hence the coerce() generic
is not visible to cacheMetaData. If you have S4 code in a package, it
will ensure that package methods is attached before your package is
loaded.]
On Sun, 9 Apr 2006, Joseph Wang wrote:
> Any one can explain why this happens or any work arounds?
>
>> setClass('foo')
> [1] "foo"
>> setAs('foo', 'character', function(from) from)
>> showMethods('coerce')
>
> Function "coerce":
> from = "ANY", to = "array"
> from = "ANY", to = "call"
> from = "ANY", to = "character"
> from = "ANY", to = "complex"
> from = "ANY", to = "environment"
> from = "ANY", to = "expression"
> from = "ANY", to = "function"
> from = "ANY", to = "integer"
> from = "ANY", to = "list"
> from = "ANY", to = "logical"
> from = "ANY", to = "matrix"
> from = "ANY", to = "name"
> from = "ANY", to = "numeric"
> from = "ANY", to = "single"
> from = "ANY", to = "ts"
> from = "ANY", to = "vector"
> from = "ANY", to = "NULL"
> from = "foo", to = "character"
>> q()
> Save workspace image? [y/n/c]: y
>
>
> (restart)
>
>> showMethods('coerce')
>
> Function "coerce":
> from = "ANY", to = "array"
> from = "ANY", to = "call"
> from = "ANY", to = "character"
> from = "ANY", to = "complex"
> from = "ANY", to = "environment"
> from = "ANY", to = "expression"
> from = "ANY", to = "function"
> from = "ANY", to = "integer"
> from = "ANY", to = "list"
> from = "ANY", to = "logical"
> from = "ANY", to = "matrix"
> from = "ANY", to = "name"
> from = "ANY", to = "numeric"
> from = "ANY", to = "single"
> from = "ANY", to = "ts"
> from = "ANY", to = "vector"
> from = "ANY", to = "NULL"
> from = "NULL", to = "OptionalFunction"
>>
>
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