On Fri, Aug 06, 1999 at 12:08:05AM +0200, Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote:
Ross Ihaka <ihaka@stat.auckland.ac.nz> writes: I played around with this earlier today. There's nothing special about dataframes, S does the same with any classed object. I.e. class(b)<-"my" cbind.my<-function(...)match.call() cbind(a,b) will dispatch cbind.my
I played some more. I think data frames are special somehow. S> x <- factor(1:10) S> y <- data.frame(1:10) > class(x) [1] "factor" S> class(y) [1] "data.frame" S> class(cbind(x,y)) [1] "data.frame" S> class(cbind(y,x)) [1] "data.frame" They seem to overpower other class arguments too. Ross -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._