-----Original Message-----
From: Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2019 2:43 PM
To: Lenth, Russell V <russell-lenth at uiowa.edu>; I?aki Ucar
<iucar at fedoraproject.org>
Cc: r-package-devel at r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R-pkg-devel] [External] Re: Farming out methods to other
packages
On 10/08/2019 3:27 p.m., Lenth, Russell V wrote:
Hmmmm, I thought of an approach -- a kind of manual dispatch
technique. My generic is
recover_data <- function(object, ...) {
rd <- try(getS3method("recover_data", class(object)[1], envir = .GlobalEnv), silent = TRUE)
if (!inherits(rd, "try-error"))
rd(object, ...)
else
UseMethod("recover_data")
}
and similar for emm_basis. The idea is it tries to find the method among globally registered ones, and if so, it uses it; otherwise, the internal one is used.
That's a bad test: class(object) might be a vector c("nomethod", "hasmethod"). You're only looking for recover_data.nomethod, and maybe only recover_data.hasmethod exists.
The getS3method() function won't automatically iterate through the
class, you'll need to do that yourself, for example
S3methodOrDefault <- function(object, generic, default) {
for (c in class(object)) {
rd <- try(getS3method(generic, c, envir = .GlobalEnv), silent = TRUE)
if (!inherits(rd, "try-error"))
return(rd)
}
return(default)
}
used as
S3methodOrDefault(object, "recover_data", internal_recover_data)
Duncan Murdoch