[Rd] How to put my class into data.frame

[Ferdinand Alimadhi]

tmp$comp <- x at ratios   ?!

Gregor Gorjanc wrote:

>Hello!
>
>I am developing a composition class, which represents a composition of
>mixture of levels, say soil has three components and each component
>accounts for 1/3 of the unit. I have tried with S4 class system and I
>would appreciate any help here. I was hoping that I would be able to
>include instance of my class into a data.frame. However, I encounter
>problems.
>
>Simple definition of class could be
>
>setClass(Class="composition",
>         representation=representation(ratios="matrix"))
>
>n <- 2
>k <- 3
>
>x <- new(Class="composition", ratios=matrix(data=rep(x=1/3, times=n*k),
>nrow=n, ncol=k))
>
>x
>An object of class "composition"
>Slot "ratios":
>          [,1]      [,2]      [,3]
>[1,] 0.3333333 0.3333333 0.3333333
>[2,] 0.3333333 0.3333333 0.3333333
>
>tmp <- data.frame(id=1:2)
>tmp$comp <- x
>Error: object is not subsettable
>
>As I understand this, my problem is that x is of length 1 as the
>following works
>
>tmp$comp <- c(x, x)
>
>although I am not able to print tmp now
>
>tmp
>Error in unlist(x, recursive, use.names) :
>	argument not a list
>
>but this is expected as I (probably) need show/print method for this.
>How can I put my class into data.frame or how can I make my class behave
>as a vector?
>
>Thanks!
>
>  
>


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