[Rd] POSIXct under R-1.8.0 with Methods package

[Uwe Ligges]

Marsland, John wrote:

> I am having problems porting a package to R-1.8.0 where I have complex S4
> classes with slots inheriting from POSIXct. For example:
> 
> 
>>setClass("test1", representation(date="POSIXct"))
> 
> [1] "test1"
> 
>>new("test1", date=as.POSIXct("2003-10-09"))
> 
> Error in ext at test(object) : couldn't find function "%in %"
> 
> Under R-1.7.1 this worked fine and generated the following:
> 
>>new("test1", date=as.POSIXct("2003-10-09"))
> 
> An object of class "test1"
> Slot "date":
> [1] "2003-10-09 GMT Standard Time"
> 
> Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated ...



It's a typo in
  methods:::.setOldIs()
"%in %" --> "%in%"

(might be fixed in a recent r-patched - I have no available here right now)

Uwe Ligges




> Regards,
> 
> John
> 
> I am working with Windows NT 4.0
> 
>>R.version
> 
>          _              
> platform i386-pc-mingw32
> arch     i386           
> os       mingw32        
> system   i386, mingw32  
> status                  
> major    1              
> minor    8.0            
> year     2003           
> month    10             
> day      08             
> language R 
> 
> 
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