Dear Christian
this post from Martin Morgan on class versioning in Bioconductor's
Biobase package might be relevant:
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/bioc-devel/2006-May/000545.html
and also section 6 of this:
http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/2.4/bioc/vignettes/Biobase/inst/doc/BiobaseDevelop
Dear Wolfgang
Thank you very much for pointing me to this link, in principle this
would answer my question: Method updateObject() of package Biobase would
be exactly what I am looking for. However, I have hoped that maybe there
is also a solution for S4 classes in general.
Somehow I feel tha
