[Rd] Calling default method for primitive functions

[Gabor Grothendieck]

See ?.subset

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Hadley Wickham <hadley at rice.edu> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> How can I call the default method of a S3 object defined by a
> primitive method?   i.e. in the following example, how do I call the
> default [ method instead of the one I defined for the class.
>
> new_a <- function(x) structure(x, class = "a")
>
> a <- new_a(1:5)
>
> "[.a" <- function(x, i, j, ...) {
>  new_a(x[, j, ])
> }
>
> a[, 5]