From Thierry.ONKELINX at inbo.be  Thu Mar 10 17:21:12 2011
From: Thierry.ONKELINX at inbo.be (ONKELINX, Thierry)
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 16:21:12 +0000
Subject: [Rd] Problem with defining new method for residuals()
Message-ID: <AA818EAD2576BC488B4F623941DA74270336BD@inbomail.inbo.be>

Dear all,

I'm writing a package and I would like to reuse the residuals() function. When I use a function which calls the redefined residuals (for my custom class) I get an error (see below). It looks like the wrong method is used. The strange this is, that when it execute the code manually it get no error.

Any suggestions?

Best regards,

Thierry

The entire source code is at svn://scm.r-forge.r-project.org/svnroot/aflp

The code with the error.

> normalise(dummy)
Error in object$na.action : $ operator not defined for this S4 class
> traceback()
5: naresid(object$na.action, object$residuals) at normalise.R#30
4: residuals.default(outliers(data)) at normalise.R#30
3: residuals(outliers(data)) at normalise.R#30
2: nrow(residuals(outliers(data))) at normalise.R#30
1: normalise(dummy)
#This works fine
> data <- dummy
> nrow(residuals(outliers(data)))
[1] 0

NAMESPACE
importFrom(stats, residuals, resid, hclust, princomp)
exportPattern(".")

METHODS
setMethod("residuals", signature(object = "AFLP.outlier"), 
	function(object, ...){
		object at Residual
	}
)

setMethod("resid", signature(object = "AFLP.outlier"), 
	function(object, ...){
		object at Residual
	}
)

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[Rd] Problem with defining new method for residuals()
ONKELINX, Thierry