I'm trying to track down a problem I'm having in the Zelig package and
have stumbled across a very odd difference in the method dispatch for
a derived S4 class.
Specifically, I have an object of class ZeligS4vglm, which is a
subclass of vglm and vlm respectively (these are from the VGAM
package).
summary() at the command line prompt of this object calls
summary.vglm, which is what I expect to happen.
However, when summary() is called on this object from within another
summary() (summary.MI in Zelig... MI is an S3 class wrapping a number
of ZeligS4vglm objects in this case), it appears to be using the
generic summary() method and ignoring the summary methods defined for
the object:
Browse[1]> summary(object[[1]])
Length Class Mode
[1,] 1 ZeligS4vglm S4
I assume this has something to do with protecting the programmer from
infinite recursion into summary() - i.e. so summary.object <-
function(x) { summary(x) } doesn't blow up the stack - but is there a
workaround?
Chris
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