[R] S4 programming

[Henrique Dallazuanna]

Try this:

xxx at y


On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 11:12 PM, Zhang,Yanwei <Yanwei.Zhang at cna.com> wrote:
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> Dear all,
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> I'm new to S4 classes and have a question on this. I want to use S4 because I want to define explicitly the slots that the new class can have. But other than that, the new class behaves exactly like a list. But this will not allow me to use the generic functions that are already defined for class "list", such as "$", "c", "[[",  "names" or "length".
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> For example, I defined a new class "abc", and tried to use "$", "length", and "[[", but they do not work (which is shown below). I know I could define these methods for the new class, but is there an easy way to allow this new class to inherit  all the functions that work for class "list"? I tried to use contains="list", but this does not work either. Thanks for any help.
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>> setClass("abc", representation(x="numeric",y="character",z="numeric"))
> [1] "abc"
>> xxx=new("abc",x=1,y="a",z=2)
>> xxx$a
> Error in xxx$a : $ operator not defined for this S4 class
>> length(xxx)
> [1] 1
>> xxx[[1]]
> Error in xxx[[1]] : this S4 class is not subsettable
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> Wayne (Yanwei) Zhang
> Statistical Research
> CNA
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