Dear all,
I'm new to S4 classes and have a question on this. I want to use S4 because I
want to define explicitly the slots that the new class can have. But other than
that, the new class behaves exactly like a list. But this will not allow me to
use the generic functions that are already defined for class "list", such as
"$", "c", "[[", "names" or "length".
For example, I defined a new class "abc", and tried to use "$", "length", and
"[[", but they do not work (which is shown below). I know I could define these
methods for the new class, but is there an easy way to allow this new class to
inherit all the functions that work for class "list"? I tried to use
contains="list", but this does not work either. Thanks for any help.
> setClass("abc", representation(x="numeric",y="character",z="numeric"))
[1] "abc"
> xxx=new("abc",x=1,y="a",z=2)
> xxx$a
Error in xxx$a : $ operator not defined for this S4 class
> length(xxx)
[1] 1
> xxx[[1]]
Error in xxx[[1]] : this S4 class is not subsettable
Wayne (Yanwei) Zhang
Statistical Research
CNA
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