Hi,
This was quite unexpected:
setGeneric("foo", function(x) standardGeneric("foo"))
setMethod("foo", "vector", identity)
foo(matrix(1:12, ncol=3))
# [1] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
foo(array(1:24, 4:2))
# [1] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24
If I define a method for array objects, things work as expected though:
setMethod("foo", "array", identity)
foo(matrix(1:12, ncol=3))
# [,1] [,2] [,3]
# [1,] 1 5 9
# [2,] 2 6 10
# [3,] 3 7 11
# [4,] 4 8 12
So, luckily, I have a workaround.
But shouldn't the dispatch mechanism stay away from the business of
altering objects before passed to it?
Thanks,
H.
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Hervé Pagès
Program in Computational Biology
Division of Public Health Sciences
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
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