From ggrothendieck at gmail.com  Tue Nov 24 00:22:03 2009
From: ggrothendieck at gmail.com (Gabor Grothendieck)
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:22:03 -0500
Subject: [Rd] Calling default method for primitive functions
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See ?.subset

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Hadley Wickham <hadley at rice.edu> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> How can I call the default method of a S3 object defined by a
> primitive method? ? i.e. in the following example, how do I call the
> default [ method instead of the one I defined for the class.
>
> new_a <- function(x) structure(x, class = "a")
>
> a <- new_a(1:5)
>
> "[.a" <- function(x, i, j, ...) {
> ?new_a(x[, j, ])
> }
>
> a[, 5]



[Rd] Calling default method for primitive functions
Gabor Grothendieck