setClass("A",
representation(a="numeric",b="numeric"),
validity = function(object) {
if (length([EMAIL PROTECTED])!=length([EMAIL PROTECTED]))
return("different lengths of a and b")
if (length([EMAIL PROTECTED])==0)
return("object length is zero")
TRUE
}
)
Do not change initialize!
Define constructors:
setGeneric("A", function(a,b,...) standardGeneric("A"))
setMethod("A", signature(a="missing",b="missing"),
function(a,b,...) A(as.numeric(1:10),...) ## calls the one below
)
setMethod("A", signature(a="A",b="missing"),
function(a,b,...) a
)
setMethod("A", signature(a="ANY",b="ANY"),
function(a,b,...) new("A",a=as.numeric(a),b=as.numeric(b),...)
)
setMethod("A", signature(a="ANY",b="missing"),
function(a,b,...) A(a,a,...) ## Calls the one above
)
etc.
In words:
1) validity should return a character in case of errors
2) default initializer usually does the job
3) define constructors as methods to allow different signatures and
conversions from other classes
4) If you derive your class from numeric, rather than add slots,
the performance will be much better and you will get default
behaviour of numeric, i.e.
setClass("A",
representatiom("numeric", b="numeric") etc
Dr Oleg Sklyar
Technology Group
Man Investments Ltd
+44 (0)20 7144 3803
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 02 May 2008 15:41
> To: r-devel@r-project.org
> Subject: [Rd] S4: what to put in initialize, validity and constructor?
>
> Hi the list,
>
> I have some trouble using validity, intialize and the
> constructor. More precisely, what should go where?
> Here is a toy exemple (seams long, but the code is very simple):
>
> I want to define an object with two slots a and b with the
> properties that b will be either empty or the scare of a.
> Example of valid object :
> a= b=
> a=2 b=
> a=3 b=9
>
> So I define my object and the validity function :
>
> setClass(
> "A",
> representation(a="numeric",b="numeric"),
> validity=function(object){
> cat("Validity\n")
> if(length([EMAIL PROTECTED])!=0){
> if(length([EMAIL PROTECTED])==0){stop("Can not have empty
> a and non emty b")}else{}
> if([EMAIL PROTECTED]@b){stop("b is not the scare
> of a")}else{}
> }else{}
> return(TRUE)
> }
> )
>
> It works:
>
> new("A")
> new("A",a=2,b=4)
> try(new("A",b=4))
> new("A",a=2)
> try(new("A",a=2,b=3))
>
>
> Then I define the initialize function. When b is givent but
> not a, the initialise function set a to sqrt(b).
>
> setMethod(
> "initialize",
> "A",
> function(.Object,a,b){
> if(missing(a)&!missing(b)){
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] <- b
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] <- sqrt(b)
> }else{}
> if(!missing(a)&missing(b)){
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] <- a
> }else{}
> if(!missing(a)&!missing(b)){
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] <- a
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] <- b
> }else{}
> validObject(.Object)
> return(.Object)
> }
> )
>
> It is fine:
>
> new("A")
> new("A",a=2,b=4)
> new("A",b=9)
> new("A",a=2)
> try(new("A",a=2,b=3))
>
>
> Then I want to set the constructor
>
> A <- function(a,b){
> return(new("A",a,b))
> }
>
> But this does not work:
> A()
> A(a=2,b=4)
> A(b=9)
> A(a=2)
>
>
> The following does not work either:
>
> A <- function(a=numeric(),b=numeric()){
> return(new("A",a,b))
> }
>
> A()
> A(a=2,b=4)
> A(b=9)
> A(a=2)
>
> So is there a way to define the constructor A without dealing
> again with all the missing&missing staff like in initialize?
>
> Christophe
>
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