[Rd] dispatching on group generics with more than one formal
Parlamis Franklin
fparlamis at mac.com
Wed Oct 11 02:53:00 CEST 2006
please see the code below. foo2 fails to dispatch correctly, but foo
does fine. i have tried 'cacheMetaData(1)' and a number of different
variants of 'cacheGenericsMetaData', on the possibility there is a
caching issue. but i still can't sort it out.
also one general question: does it really matter what's in the body
of the function definition in a 'setGroupGeneric' call? the actual
group function definition is always overwritten by a message to the
effect the function should not be called directly.
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setGroupGeneric("Foo", function(x) standardGeneric("Foo"))
setGroupGeneric("Foo2", function(x, y) standardGeneric("Foo2"))
setGeneric("foo", function(x) standardGeneric("foo"),
group = "Foo", useAsDefault = function(x) "Default")
setGeneric("foo2", function(x, y) standardGeneric("foo2"),
group = "Foo2", useAsDefault = function(x, y) "Default2")
setMethod("Foo", signature(x = "numeric"), function(x) "Special")
setMethod("Foo2", signature(x = "numeric", y = "missing"),
function(x, y) "Special2")
foo(1) # gives the group method
foo2(1) # gives the default method
selectMethod("foo2", signature(x = "numeric", y = "missing")) # but
method selection appears to work correctly
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franklin parlamis
> version
platform powerpc-apple-darwin8.7.0
arch powerpc
os darwin8.7.0
system powerpc, darwin8.7.0
status
major 2
minor 4.0
year 2006
month 10
day 03
svn rev 39566
language R
version.string R version 2.4.0 (2006-10-03)
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