[Rd] Calling default method for primitive functions

Hadley Wickham hadley at rice.edu
Tue Nov 24 00:44:51 CET 2009


Perfect - thanks!
Hadley

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 5:22 PM, Gabor Grothendieck
<ggrothendieck at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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]
>
>



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