A general goal for the next version of R is to make S4 and S3 play
better together.
As mentioned in a previous thread, one limitation has been that S3
generic functions, specifically the UseMethod() call, did not make use
of S4 inheritance when dispatching on general S4 objects.
This has
On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 6:58 PM, John Chambers j...@r-project.org wrote:
A general goal for the next version of R is to make S4 and S3 play better
together.
As mentioned in a previous thread, one limitation has been that S3 generic
functions, specifically the UseMethod() call, did not make
There are number of examples in the documentation, as noted,
illustrating different situations.
Here is one of them. Of course, to enter and run it you need rev 52267.
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setClass(classA, contains = numeric,
representation(realData = numeric))
Math.classA - function(x)