Hi Michael,
Thanks for looking into this. I suspect that truncation of ANY suffixes from
method signatures is also the culprit behind the sudden breakage of aliases of
the form \alias{foo,numeric-method} when a method without the ANY suffix in its
signature gets added to the ecosystem. See my post about this to the Bioc-devel
mailing list a couple of months ago:
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/bioc-devel/2019-January/014603.html
So overall isn't this truncation more trouble than it's worth?
H.
On 3/19/19 10:12, Michael Lawrence wrote:
This is due to the intentional truncation of ANY suffixes from method
signatures. I've hacked selectMethod() to be robust to that and will commit
soon. Thanks for the report.
Michael
On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 9:32 AM Pages, Herve
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Here is an example:
setGeneric("foo", function(x, y) standardGeneric("foo"))
setMethod("foo", c("numeric", "ANY"),
function(x, y) cat("I'm the foo#numeric#ANY method\n")
)
Dispatch works as expected but selectMethod() fails to find the method:
> foo(1, TRUE)
I'm the foo#numeric#ANY method
> selectMethod("foo", c("numeric", "logical"))
Error in selectMethod("foo", c("numeric", "logical")) :
no method found for signature numeric, logical
Adding an arbitrary method that doesn't have ANY in the signature "fixes"
selectMethod():
setMethod("foo", c("complex", "integer"),
function(x, y) cat("I'm the foo#complex#integer method\n")
)
Then:
> selectMethod("foo", c("numeric", "logical"))
Method Definition:
function (x, y)
cat("I'm the foo#numeric#ANY method\n")
Signatures:
x y
target "numeric" "logical"
defined "numeric" "ANY"
Thanks,
H.
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