Re: [R-pkg-devel] Problems with :::

2016-02-01 Thread Martin Maechler
> Kirill Müller > on Thu, 28 Jan 2016 17:42:12 +0100 writes: > On 28.01.2016 14:20, Duncan Murdoch wrote: >> If the class is just "mytable", then you'll have to >> change it to "ftable" before calling stats::format(). > Side note: The following will fail, because forma

[R-pkg-devel] S3 length method behavior

2016-02-01 Thread Nathan Wendt
Hello, I have run into an issue while developing an R package. Specifically, my issue relates to what happens when I define an S3 length method for my class. Here is my basic setup: # Here is the structure of myClass # uses an externalptr to operate on file using some C functions list(file = "my/

Re: [R-pkg-devel] S3 length method behavior

2016-02-01 Thread Georgi Boshnakov
Hi, >I have run into an issue while developing an R package. Specifically, my issue >relates to what happens when I define an S3 length >method for my class. Here is my basic setup: ># Here is the structure of myClass ># uses an externalptr to operate on file using some C functions list(file =

Re: [R-pkg-devel] S3 length method behavior

2016-02-01 Thread Jim Lemon
Hi Nathan, Perhaps if you defined your "length" object as "nbm" (number of binary messages), it would not interfere with the default "length". Jim On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 12:46 AM, Georgi Boshnakov < georgi.boshna...@manchester.ac.uk> wrote: > Hi, > > >I have run into an issue while developing a