'Math' group generic functions. Cant explain behaviour of 'log'.
Hi! Out of all 'Math' group generic functions(?Math) the log function has a different behaviour. See example bellow. Whats the reason? Platfom Windows 2000. R : Copyright 2003, The R Foundation for Statistical Computing Version 1.8.1 (2003-11-21), ISBN 3-900051-00-3
setClass("track",representation(x="numeric",y="numeric"))
setMethod("Math","track",function(x)
+ {
+ x at y=callGeneric(x at y)
+ x
+ }
+ )
xx<-new("track",x=1:10,y=-(1:10))
xx<-abs(xx)
sqrt(xx)
An object of class "track" Slot "x": [1] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Slot "y": [1] 1.000000 1.414214 1.732051 2.000000 2.236068 2.449490 2.645751 2.828427 [9] 3.000000 3.162278
log(xx)
Error in log(x) : Non-numeric argument to mathematical function Sincerely Eryk