[Rd] Usage of PROTECT_WITH_INDEX in R-exts

2017-06-05 Thread Kirill Müller
Hi I've noted a minor inconsistency in the documentation: Current R-exts reads s = PROTECT_WITH_INDEX(eval(OS->R_fcall, OS->R_env), &ipx); but I believe it has to be PROTECT_WITH_INDEX(s = eval(OS->R_fcall, OS->R_env), &ipx); because PROTECT_WITH_INDEX() returns void. Best regards Kirill

[Rd] surprisingly, S4 classes with a "dim" or "dimnames" slot are final (in the Java sense)

2017-06-05 Thread Hervé Pagès
Hi, It's nice to be able to define S4 classes with slots that correspond to standard attributes: setClass("A1", slots=c(names="character")) setClass("A2", slots=c(dim="integer")) setClass("A3", slots=c(dimnames="list")) By doing this, one gets a few methods for free: a1 <- new("A1", na