Dear list,

I was wondering if you could help me out in clarifying something:
Is it possible to use class "ANY" in slots/fields of formal classes if you
   a) do not want to restrict valid classes of that field and
   b) if you are making explicit use of class inheritance?

It seems to work in simple scenarios but produces errors when class 
inheritance comes into play. So I was wondering if that's a feature or a 
bug.

If using "ANY" is not the right way, I'd appreciate a pointer to how you 
can to this.

See previous post with an example below.

Regards,
Janko

On 06/03/2011 01:53 AM, Janko Thyson wrote:
> On 31.05.2011 18:17, Martin Morgan wrote:
>> On 05/30/2011 07:02 AM, Janko Thyson wrote:
>>> Dear list,
>>>
>>> I would like to set one specific Reference Class field to be of an
>>> arbitrary class. Is there a class that all R objects inherit from? I
>>> thought that "ANY" was something like this, but obviously that's not
>>> true:
>>>
>>> > inherits(1:3, "ANY")
>>> [1] FALSE
>>
>> I can't speak to the implementation, but ANY functions as a base class
>> in terms of slot / field assignment and inheritance, e.g.,
>>
>> setClass("A", representation(x="ANY"))
>> new("A", x=1:3)
>>
>> Martin
>
> Hi Martin,
>
> sorry for the late response. The way you do it works. Yet, when you
> declare dependencies more explicitly (contains=XY), then R complains. Is
> this a feature or a bug (with respect to the "less explicit" way working
> just fine)? See the example below:
>
> # S4
> setClass("A", representation(x="ANY"))
> new("A", x=1:3)
>
> setClass("A", representation(x="ANY"))
> setClass("B", contains="A", representation(x="character"))
> new("B", x=1:3)
>
> # Reference Classes
> setRefClass(
> Class="A",
> fields=list(
> .PRIMARYDATA="ANY"
> ),
> contains=c("VIRTUAL")
> )
> B <- setRefClass(
> Class="B",
> fields=list(
> .PRIMARYDATA="character"
> ),
> contains=c("A")
> )

Bug, I'd say. Martin

>
> Regards,
> Janko
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Janko
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