Dear Martin: This is wonderful. Thank you very much.
It would be a great help if your suggestions could be added to "See Also" and "Examples" for "methods". Thanks again, Spencer Graves Martin Morgan wrote: > 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. > > ______________________________________________ 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.