From ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de  Sat Oct 23 17:08:35 2010
From: ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de (Uwe Ligges)
Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2010 17:08:35 +0200
Subject: [Rd] new.env does not recognize
	parents	from	subclassesof	"environment"
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On 23.10.2010 17:08, Uwe Ligges wrote:
> Looks like those ETH pages were nnot updated after the R-2.12.0 release
> (they do not show current R-tached / R-devel), hence CCing Martin Maechler.


... which I actually do now...

Uwe


> Best,
> Uwe Ligges
>
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> On 22.10.2010 21:54, Vitally S. wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> John Chambers<jmc4 at stanford.edu> writes:
>>
>>> You need to update your version of R (r-devel or 2.12 patched) to rev
>>> 53385 or later, and read NEWS, particularly the line:
>>>
>>> - Assignment of an environment to functions or as an attribute to other
>>> objects now works for subclasses of "environment".
>>>
>>
>> I am following the news in daily snapshots from here
>> ftp://ftp.stat.math.ethz.ch/Software/R
>> and the above line is still not in the NEWS of today's version.
>>
>> Thanks for the patch. Looking forward to the stable release.
>>
>> Vitally.
>>
>>> On 10/22/10 10:20 AM, Vitally S. wrote:
>>>> Yet another inconsistency. environment<- does not work with S4:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> setClass("myenv", contains = "environment")
>>>> [1] "myenv"
>>>>> env<- new("myenv")
>>>>> tf<- function(x){x}
>>>>> environment(tf)<- env
>>>> Error in environment(tf)<- env :
>>>> replacement object is not an environment
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Vitally.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> John Chambers<jmc4 at stanford.edu> writes:
>>>>> This is a problem related to the introduction of exact= into the [[
>>>>> and [[<- functions. As Bill says, the
>>> current
>>>>> method misuses eval.parent() when that argument is added.
>>>>>
>>>>> However, a simpler and more efficient solution is to migrate the
>>>>> checks for subclasses of "environment" used in
>>>>> other base code into the code for [[<- (and for $<-), at which
>>>>> point the methods for these functions are no
>>> longer
>>>>> needed.
>>>>>
>>>>> A solution on these lines is being tested now and will find its way
>>>>> into r-devel and 2.12 patched.
>>>>>
>>>>> One other point about the original posting:
>>>>>
>>>>> Please don't use constructions like env at .xData. This depends on the
>>>>> current implementation and is not part of
>>> the
>>>>> user-level definition. Use as(env, "environment") or equivalent.
>>>>> (In this case, the assignment of the object's
>>> own
>>>>> environment was irrelevant to the error.)
>>>>>
>>>>> John Chambers
>>>>>
>>>>> On 10/21/10 9:21 AM, William Dunlap wrote:
>>>>>> The traceback looks very similar to a problem
>>>>>> in R 2.11.1 reported earlier this month by Troy Robertson.
>>>>>> > From: r-devel-bounces at r-project.org
>>>>>> > [mailto:r-devel-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Troy Robertson
>>>>>> > Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2010 6:13 PM
>>>>>> > To: 'r-devel at R-project.org'
>>>>>> > Subject: Re: [Rd] Recursion error after upgrade to
>>>>>> > R_2.11.1[Sec=Unclassified]
>>>>>> It was due to a miscount of how many frames to go
>>>>>> up before evaluating an expression in
>>>>>> getMethod("[[<-",".environment") because setMethod()
>>>>>> introduced a local function in the new method.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Bill Dunlap
>>>>>> Spotfire, TIBCO Software
>>>>>> wdunlap tibco.com
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>>> From: r-devel-bounces at r-project.org
>>>>>>> [mailto:r-devel-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Vitally S.
>>>>>>> Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 9:00 AM
>>>>>>> To: John Chambers
>>>>>>> Cc: r-devel at r-project.org
>>>>>>> Subject: Re: [Rd] new.env does not recognize parents from
>>>>>>> subclassesof "environment"
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Here is an infinite recursion error which occurs only with S4
>>>>>>> subclasses assignment.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> setClass("myenv", contains = "environment")
>>>>>>> #[1] "myenv"
>>>>>>> env<- new("myenv")
>>>>>>> env[[".me"]]<- ?
>>>>>>> #Error: evaluation nested too deeply: infinite recursion /
>>>>>>> options(expressions=)?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> With basic types it works as expected:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> env1<- new.env()
>>>>>>> env1[[".me"]]<- env1
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> May be this is related to active bindings that you mentioned,
>>>>>>> but I am still
>>>>>>> reporting it here.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Vitally.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thanks for the report. Should now be fixed in r-devel and
>>>>>>> 2.12 patched (rev 53383).
>>>>>>>> Please do report any cases where a subclass of environment
>>>>>>> doesn't work. There are some known cases in locking and
>>>>>>>> active binding, that will be fixed in due course.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The workaround for any such problem is usually as.environment().
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 10/20/10 3:17 AM, Vitaly S. wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Dear Developers,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> A lot has been changed in the R12.0 with respect to
>>>>>>> behavior of "environment"
>>>>>>>>> subclasses. Many thanks for that.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> One small irregularity, though; new.env does not allow the
>>>>>>> parent to be from S4
>>>>>>>>> subclass.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> setClass("myenv", contains="environment")
>>>>>>>>> [1] "myenv"
>>>>>>>>>> new.env(parent=new("myenv"))
>>>>>>>>> Error in new.env(parent = new("myenv")) : 'enclos' must be
>>>>>>> an environment
>>>>>>>>> I wonder if this is a "planed" behavior.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> The use of .xData slot obviously works:
>>>>>>>>>> new.env(parent=new("myenv")@.xData)
>>>>>>>>> <environment: 063bb9e8>
>>>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>>> Vitaly.
>>>>>>>>>
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[Rd] new.env does not recognize parents from subclassesof "environment"
Uwe Ligges