InternalMethods {base} | R Documentation |
Internal Generic Functions
Description
Many R-internal functions are generic and allow methods to be written for.
Details
The following primitive and internal functions are generic,
i.e., you can write methods
for them:
[
,
[[
,
$
,
[<-
,
[[<-
,
$<-
,
length
,
length<-
,
dimnames
,
dimnames<-
,
dim
,
dim<-
,
names
,
names<-
,
levels<-
,
c
,
unlist
,
cbind
,
rbind
,
as.character
,
as.complex
,
as.double
,
as.integer
,
as.logical
,
as.raw
,
as.vector
,
is.array
,
is.matrix
,
is.na
,
is.nan
,
is.numeric
,
rep
and
seq.int
(which dispatches methods for "seq"
).
In addition, is.name
is a synonym for is.symbol
and
dispatches methods for the latter.
Note that all of the group generic functions are also internal/primitive and allow methods to be written for them.
.S3PrimitiveGenerics
is a character vector listing the
primitives which are internal generic and not group generic.
Currently as.vector
, cbind
,
rbind
and unlist
are the internal
non-primitive functions which are internally generic.
For efficiency, internal dispatch only occurs on objects, that
is those for which is.object
returns true.
See Also
methods
for the methods which are available.