From vincent.goulet at act.ulaval.ca  Wed Sep 27 22:02:43 2006
From: vincent.goulet at act.ulaval.ca (Vincent Goulet)
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 16:02:43 -0400
Subject: [Rd] S3 methods for cbind/rbind
Message-ID: <200609271602.43138.vincent.goulet@act.ulaval.ca>

I created a type of object similar to a data frame. In some circumstances, It 
needs special methods for "[" and "[<-" and rbind() (but not cbind()). Then I 
found this in the cbind()/rbind() man page:

     The method dispatching is _not_ done via 'UseMethod()', but by
     C-internal dispatching. Therefore, there is no need for, e.g.,
     'rbind.default'.

This seems to imply I cannot add my own method. Is there 1) a workaround to 
and 2) a rationale for this? (Other than creating a generic Rbind() or 
whatever, that is.)

I'm using S3 methods.

Thanks in advance!

-- 
  Vincent Goulet, Associate Professor
  ?cole d'actuariat
  Universit? Laval, Qu?bec 
  Vincent.Goulet at act.ulaval.ca   http://vgoulet.act.ulaval.ca




[Rd] S3 methods for cbind/rbind
Vincent Goulet