[R] setMethodReplace.. Help!

[John Chambers]

The error message says it:  in R, the arguments for the generic function 
"[" include i and j; the method definition must include those as well. 
Do getGeneric("[") or ?"[" to see the arguments.

As has been said on the R mailing lists in the past, R is generally 
compatible with the published books, but not when there is a better 
approach.  Having the extra arguments allows methods to be based on the 
class of the row or column indices.


wolski wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> Trying to reproduce some examples from "Programming with Data" page 341.
> Can not reproduce it neither on R1.8.1. nor R1.9.0devel?
> 
> 
> library(methods)
> setClass("track",representation(x="numeric",y="numeric"))
> 
> setMethod("["
>           ,"track"
>           ,function(x,...,drop=T){
>             track(x at x[...],y at y[...])
>           }
>           )
> 
> In method for function "[": Expanding the signature to
> include omitted arguments in definition: i = "missing",
> j = "missing"
> Error in .MakeSignature(new("signature"), def, signature) :
>         The names in signature for method (x, , ) don't match function's arguments (x, i, j, drop)
> 
> The same....
> setReplaceMethod("[","track"
>                  ,function(x,...,value)
>                  {
>                   x at y[...]=as(value,"numeric") 
>                  }
>                  )
> 
> 
> Please Help.
> Eryk.
> 
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