Get an S3 method

Description

Get an S3 method.

Usage

## Default S3 method:
getMethodS3(name, class="default", ...)

Arguments

Author(s)

Henrik Bengtsson (http://www.braju.com/R/)

See Also

This is just a conveniency wrapper around getS3method that have arguments consistent with setMethodS3(). getGenericS3().

Examples

 ######################################################################
# Example 1
######################################################################
setMethodS3("foo", "default", function(x, ...) {
  cat("In default foo():\n");
  print(x, ...);
})

setMethodS3("foo", "character", function(s, ...) {
  cat("In foo() for class 'character':\n");
  print(s, ...);
})

# The generic function is automatically created!
print(foo)

foo(123)
foo("123")

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# Example 2
#
# Assume that in a loaded package there is already a function bar(),
# but you also want to use the name 'bar' for the character string.
# It may even be the case that you do not know of the other package,
# but your users do!
######################################################################
# bar() in other package
bar <- function(x, y, ...) {
  cat("In bar() of 'other' package.\n");
}

# Your defintion; will redefine bar() above to bar.default().
setMethodS3("bar", "character", function(object, ...) {
  cat("In bar() for class 'character':\n");
  print(object, ...);
})

bar(123)
bar("123")