On Thu, 02 Dec 2021 13:41:52 -0800 Jeff Newmiller <jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote:
> I think you need a reprex... I don't think your claim is correct as > stated. Sorry, let me try again. The following "works" for me in the sense of throwing the same error on R 3.3 and R-devel: foo <- function(x, ...) UseMethod('foo') # foo is a matrix tagged with a vector of length() == nrow(foo) foo.matrix <- function(x, y, ...) { stopifnot( !is.recursive(y), length(y) == nrow(x), length(list(...)) == 0 ) structure(x, class = 'foo', foo = y) } # the vector must be subsetted at the same time as x `[.foo` <- function(x, i, j, ..., drop = TRUE) { ret <- NextMethod() # could drop dimensions if (is.matrix(ret)) foo( ret, unname(setNames(attr(x, 'foo'), dimnames(x)[[1]])[i]) ) else ret } `[<-.foo` <- function(x, i, j, ..., value) { xsub <- x[i, j, drop = FALSE] # TODO: some checks on xsub NextMethod() } x <- foo(volcano, 1:nrow(volcano)) invisible(x[]) # doesn't stop despite missing i x[] <- 1 # fails in `[.foo` with "i missing" # Error in NextMethod() : argument "i" is missing, with no default traceback() # 9: NextMethod() at foo.R#15 # 8: `[.foo`(x, i, j, drop = FALSE) at foo.R#24 # 7: x[i, j, drop = FALSE] at foo.R#24 # 6: `[<-.foo`(`*tmp*`, , value = 1) at foo.R#30 # 5: `[<-`(`*tmp*`, , value = 1) at foo.R#30 # 4: eval(ei, envir) # 3: eval(ei, envir) # 2: withVisible(eval(ei, envir)) # 1: source("foo.R", echo = TRUE) Or did you mean some other claim? -- Best regards, Ivan ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.