[R] S3 class question

[Berton Gunter]

Have you defined matSummary() as a generic with UseMethod:

matSummary<-function(...)UseMethod('matSummary')


-- Bert Gunter
Genentech Non-Clinical Statistics
South San Francisco, CA
 
"The business of the statistician is to catalyze the scientific learning
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> [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Joel Bremson
> Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 4:03 PM
> To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: [R] S3 class question
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have a class called "spss" containing prepared info from an 
> SPSS file.
> >...
> >class(ret) = "spss"
> >return(ret)
> The function that returns this defined in a file that I source into R.
> 
> Also in that file is a function matSummary.spss.
> 
> I think I ought to be able to call 
> >matSummary(ret)
> 
> to run the function, but only 
> >matSummary.spss(ret)
> 
> will work.
> 
> What am I doing wrong here? This seems like a simple problem
> yet I've been able to find nothing in the archives about this.
> 
> 
> Joel
> 
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> Joel Bremson
> Graduate Student
> Institute for Transportation Studies - UC Davis
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