[Rd] identical() fails to compare isS4(<S4 instance>) to TRUE

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 12-10-04 5:50 PM, Martin Morgan wrote:
> On 10/04/2012 02:23 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>> On 12-10-04 4:57 PM, Martin Morgan wrote:
>>>
>>>    > setClass("A", "integer")
>>>    > isS4(new("A"))
>>> [1] TRUE
>>>    > identical(isS4(new("A")), TRUE)
>>> [1] FALSE
>>>
>>>    > sessionInfo()
>>> R Under development (unstable) (2012-10-04 r60876)
>>> Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit)
>>>
>>> locale:
>>>     [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
>>>     [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
>>>     [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
>>>     [7] LC_PAPER=C                 LC_NAME=C
>>>     [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
>>> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>>>
>>> attached base packages:
>>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>>>
>>
>> I can confirm this in R-devel, but it doesn't happen in R-patched.  In R-devel,
>> isS4 is returning a vector marked as LGLSXP, but containing the value 16, not
>> the usual 1 for TRUE.
>>
>>   > .Internal(inspect(isS4(new("A"))))
>> @4bfbed8 10 LGLSXP g0c1 [] (len=1, tl=0) 16
>>
>> I'm not going to have time to track this down and fix it.
>
> The bit is set at src/include/Rinternals.h:278
>
>    39103        jmc #define IS_S4_OBJECT(x) ((x)->sxpinfo.gp & S4_OBJECT_MASK)
>
> but it's identical that has changed; it looks as though there are other similar
> operations in that header and probably elsewhere.

In R-patched, it returned the value 1 for TRUE, so I'm not sure 
identical() has changed.

Duncan Murdoch

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> Martin
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>> Duncan Murdoch
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