[Rd] Overloading methods in R

[Ali -]

Sean,

Thanks, but, I am actually talking about overloading 'methods' and not 
'functions', or you may want to answer this question: How to overload 
methods in classes created by R.oo package?

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>On Apr 20, 2005, at 8:16 AM, Ali - wrote:
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>>(1) It seems to me that, generally, in R it is not possible to  overload 
>>functions. Is that right?
>>
>>(2) Assuming that the above is true, or partially true, is there any  
>>extra packages to handle overloading in R?
>>
>>(3) Assuming (1) is TRUE and (2) is FALSE, can anyone provide some  advice 
>>on developing some function that understand what the arguments  are and 
>>then calls the right overloaded function?
>>
>>It would be something like this:
>>
>>overloadedFunction1 <- function(x) {};
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>>overloadedFunction2 <- function(x, y) {};
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>>theFunction <- function(...)
>>{
>>   # How to identify ... and call the right overloaded function?
>>}
>>
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>Ali,
>
>You are probably interested in "methods".  Functions can have different  
>"methods" depending on what the arguments and their types are.  A first  
>place to look is:
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>http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-exts.html#Generic-functions- 
>and-methods
>
>Sean
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