[R] now S4 classes and packages

[Uwe Ligges]

On 22.02.2011 09:15, Laura Smith wrote:
> Hi again List:
>
> This time I have the following:
>> setClass("dog",representation(breed="numeric"))
> [1] "dog"
>> woof<- function(x=1:10) {
> + if(!is.numeric(x))stop("Must have numeric data")
> + y<- new("dog",breed=x)
> + return(y)
> + }
>> setMethod("plot","dog",
> + function(x,y,...) {
> + plot(x at breed,col="blue",type="l")
> + }
> + )
> Creating a new generic function for "plot" in ".GlobalEnv"
> [1] "plot"
>>
>
> My question then is: how do I create a package such that it contains the
> class dog, the function woof, and the method dog for plot, please?

Copy the stuff from above in a file in your package's R directory?

Uwe


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