[Rd] can we override "if" in R?
Hadley Wickham
h.wickham at gmail.com
Sun Mar 5 19:35:44 CET 2017
On Sun, Mar 5, 2017 at 8:13 PM, Gábor Csárdi <csardi.gabor at gmail.com> wrote:
> Because the S3 class system is very informal. E.g. if you happen to
> have an `if.whatever` function, that will be automatically a method of
> your generic.
For example:
x <- structure(1:10, class = "test")
t(x)
#>
#> One Sample t-test
#>
#> data: x
#> t = 5.7446, df = 9, p-value = 0.0002782
#> alternative hypothesis: true mean is not equal to 0
#> 95 percent confidence interval:
#> 3.334149 7.665851
#> sample estimates:
#> mean of x
#> 5.5
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