Accordng to the S4groupGeneric page, there is no such group.
My guess as to why:
Those operators are not S3 generic in R, and S4 dispatch is piggy-backed
on S3 dispatch (not necessarily, but for convenience).
On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, Robin Hankin wrote:
> Hi
>
>
> In V&R the "polynomial" class is explicitly specified to have no
> logical operators:
>
> setMethod("Logic", signature(e1="polynomial"), function(e1,e2){stop
> ("...")})
>
>
> I too have a class of objects for which I want to
> specify that Logic operators do not work, but executing
>
>
>
> setClass("brob",
> representation = representation
> (x="numeric",positive="logical"),
> prototype = list(x=numeric(),positive=logical())
> )
>
> setMethod("Logic",signature(e1="brob"), function(e1,e2)
> {
> stop("No logic currently implemented for brob objects")
> }
> )
>
>
> gives me
>
>
> Error in setMethod("Logic", signature(e1 = "brob"), function(e1, e2) { :
> no existing definition for function 'Logic'
>
>
> ?Math seems to imply that there is no "Logic" group.
>
> So, what is the correct way to specify that logical operations are
> not allowed for "brob" objects?
>
>
>
>
>
> --
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