Spencer Graves wrote: > 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
Use the 'classes' argument to showMethods, either with or without a function as first argument. > 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 use includeDef=TRUE with showMethods, or getMethod to get a specific method, or, for some fun, selectMethod to find the method to which object dispatch occurs. I'm not sure how to dump the method to a file. Martin > "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. ______________________________________________ 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.