Ok, but I'm surprised. I thought partial matching only happened for named arguments. I guess I've been lucky.
Paul Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > It's an error in your usage The args of new() are > >> args(new) > function (Class, ...) > > and what does 'C' match? You need to name your arguments here. > > On Mon, 17 Apr 2006, Paul Gilbert wrote: > >> "C" appears to be an illegal name for a slot in an S4 class (example >> below). > > It is rather an example of something which does not work. > > foo <- new("testobj") > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <- 2 > > does, for example. > >> If this is a known limitation, and not a bug, it would be nice >> if it were caught by setClass. >> >> Paul Gilbert >> >> > setClass("testobj", representation ( C = "numeric")) >> [1] "testobj" >> > new("testobj", C= 2) >> Error in methodsPackageMetaName("C", name) : >> 'The name of the object (e.g,. a class or generic function) to >> find in the meta-data' must be a single string (got an object of class >> "numeric") >> >> > setClass("testobj", representation ( C. = "numeric")) >> [1] "testobj" >> > new("testobj", C.= 2) >> An object of class "testobj" >> Slot "C.": >> [1] 2 >> ==================================================================================== >> >> >> >> La version française suit le texte anglais. >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> >> >> This email may contain privileged and/or confidential >> inform...{{dropped}} >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >> >> > ==================================================================================== La version française suit le texte anglais. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This email may contain privileged and/or confidential inform...{{dropped}} ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel