[Rd] override pmin/pmax for my own matrix

Da Zheng zhengda1936 at gmail.com
Thu Dec 24 20:52:47 CET 2015


Thank you. It works!

On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 9:08 AM, Michael Lawrence
<lawrence.michael at gene.com> wrote:
> Yes, functions like c, min and max are special cases, as they are
> primitives. For ordinary functions, you just need to promote them with
> "..." as the signature:
>
> setGeneric("pmax", signature="...")
> setMethod("pmax", "Class", function(..., na.rm=FALSE) { })
>
> One caveat is that all arguments passed via "..." must derive from the
> class specified for "..." in the method signature. At some point we
> should solve that by introducing a binary pmin2, pmax2 as we have for
> cbind and rbind.
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 5:54 AM, Da Zheng <zhengda1936 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm trying to override pmin and pmax for my own matrix. These two
>> functions have ... as an argument. I tried to override them as
>> follows:
>>     setMethod("pmax", class_name, function(x, ..., na.rm) { ... })
>>
>> I use this way to override primitive functions such as min/max and it
>> works fine.
>> But it doesn't work for pmin and pmax. I guess because they are
>> regular functions?
>> How do I override a regular function with ... as an argument?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Da
>>
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