[R] getMethod in a setMethod context

[Luke Tierney]

On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Michael Mader wrote:

> Hi Laurent,
> 
> what about something like
> 
>    setMethod("f", signature("B"),
>              definition=function(obj){
> 	        f(as(obj, "A")
>               },
>              where=where)
>  
> 
> 
> Cheers 
> 
> Michael
> 

May not be what you want if the method for "A" calls generics for
which the class of the original obj would be more relevant.

luke

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