Re: [Rd] group generics

2009-12-03 Thread Ross Boylan
On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 14:25 -0800, John Chambers wrote: > I missed the earlier round of this discussion and only am commenting > now to say that this doesn't seem weird at all, if I understand what > you're trying to do. > > Martin's basic suggestion, > v <- callGeneric(e1, as(e2, "A")) > seems th

Re: [Rd] group generics

2009-12-03 Thread John Chambers
I missed the earlier round of this discussion and only am commenting now to say that this doesn't seem weird at all, if I understand what you're trying to do. Martin's basic suggestion, v <- callGeneric(e1, as(e2, "A")) seems the simplest solution. You just want to make another call to the ac

Re: [Rd] group generics

2009-12-03 Thread Ross Boylan
Thanks for your help. I had two concerns about using as: that it would impose some overhead, and that it would require me to code an explicit conversion function. I see now that the latter is not true; I don't know if the overhead makes much difference. On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 13:00 -0800, Martin

Re: [Rd] group generics

2009-12-03 Thread Martin Morgan
Hi Ross -- Ross Boylan wrote: > > > Martin Morgan wrote: >> Hi Ross -- > >> Ross Boylan writes: > >>> I have classes A and B, where B contains A. In the implementation of >>> the group generic for B I would like to use the corresponding group >>> generic for A. Is there a way to do that? >

Re: [Rd] group generics

2009-11-30 Thread Ross Boylan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin Morgan wrote: > Hi Ross -- > > Ross Boylan writes: > >> I have classes A and B, where B contains A. In the implementation of >> the group generic for B I would like to use the corresponding group >> generic for A. Is there a way to do th

Re: [Rd] group generics

2009-11-25 Thread Martin Morgan
Hi Ross -- Ross Boylan writes: > I have classes A and B, where B contains A. In the implementation of > the group generic for B I would like to use the corresponding group > generic for A. Is there a way to do that? > > I would also appreciate any comments if what I'm trying to do seems like