I have an S4 class with a slot of class "array", and in upgrading to 2.0.1
(from 1.9.1) I have encountered a change in behaviour. This causes me some
difficulties if I want to allow 2-dimensional arrays in the slot.
The following (in 2.0.1) illustrates the point:
> setClass("foo",representation("array"))
[1] "foo"
> a <- new("foo",array(NA,2:4))
> b <- new("foo",matrix(NA,2,3))
Error in "as<-"(`*tmp*`, Classi, value = c(NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA)) :
No method or default for as() replacement of "foo" with
Class="matrix"
This last error did not occur under 1.9.1.
I conclude that in this context the methods package does not recognise
"matrix" as a subclass of "array". However if I use getClass(), I see that R
recognises "matrix" as a subclass of "array" (and vice-versa). So is this
new behaviour correct?
[this is a re-posting to R-devel of a question earlier posted to R-help,
which attracted limited response]
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