> -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org > [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Karl Ove Hufthammer > Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 1:46 AM > To: r-h...@stat.math.ethz.ch > Subject: Re: [R] How to figure out which the version of split is used? > > On Wed, 9 Dec 2009 19:20:47 -0600 Peng Yu <pengyu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Is there a way to figure out which of these variants is actually > > dispatched to when I call split? I know that if the > argument is of the > > type data.frame, split.data.frame will be called? Is it the > case that > > if the argument is not of type data.frame, Date or POSIXct, > > split.default will be called? > > Yes. See ?UseMethod
You can also use trace() to see what actually happens in test cases. E.g., > invisible(lapply(methods("split"), function(method)trace(method, bquote(cat("Entering", .(method), "x=", class(x), "f=", class(f), "\n"))))) Tracing function "split.data.frame" in package "base" Tracing function "split.Date" in package "base" Tracing function "split.default" in package "base" Tracing function "split.POSIXct" in package "base" > split(data.frame(x=1:3,y=1:3), f=c(10,10,20)) Tracing split.data.frame(data.frame(x = 1:3, y = 1:3), f = c(10, 10, .... on entry Entering split.data.frame x= data.frame f= numeric Tracing split.default(seq_len(nrow(x)), f, drop = drop, ...) on entry Entering split.default x= integer f= numeric $`10` x y 1 1 1 2 2 2 $`20` x y 3 3 3 Bill Dunlap Spotfire, TIBCO Software wdunlap tibco.com > > -- > Karl Ove Hufthammer > > ______________________________________________ > 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.