Thanks, Ken. 1. How can I find S4 methods for a given function given class(es) of objects? The 'showMethods' function lists available generics for a given function; "showMethods('%*%')" just produced for me a list of 52 different signatures for "%*%". However, I don't know how to find the functions with methods for a particular class. The 'methods' function will produce either S3 methods for a given function or S3 functions for a given class. It would help me if the 'methods' help page included "See Also" and "Examples" for S4 classes also, but it doesn't.
2. How can I find source code for S4 methods? I tried "dumpMethods('%*%', 'mmult.R')" and got an apparently empty file of 0 KB. Then I tried 'dumpMethod("%*%", c(x="TsparseMatrix", y="ANY"))' and got a file with the following: setMethod("%*%", structure(c("TsparseMatrix", "ANY"), .Names = c("x", "y")), NULL ) Thanks again for your reply regarding "%*%". Spencer Graves knoblauch wrote: > Joe Cainey <jcainey <at> gmail.com> writes: > >> Is it possible to supply a new method for the %*% operator? >> > clipped > >> I've tried to do the same thing with %*%: >> >> "%*%.ad" <- function(a,b) >> { >> # further code here >> } >> However this doesn't work; the new method is never called and the standard >> %*% operator is used instead. I've had a look at the documentation and it >> appears to be because the %*% operator is not part of the "Math", "Ops", >> "Summary" or "Complex" groups. I was wondering if anybody knew of a >> work-around for this? >> > According to the help page for %*%, it is S4 generic but not S3, so > you might make further progress using S4 methods. > > >> Thanks, >> >> Joe Cainey >> >> > best, > > Ken > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.