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R Programming for Bioinformatics
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R Programming for Bioinformatics

by Robert Gentleman
July 2008
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
328 pages
10h 53m
English
Chapman and Hall/CRC
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102 R Programming for Bioinformatics
generic function and it also establishes a default method that will be used if
no function with matching signature is found.
The syntax is quite straightforward. The def argument is a function, each
named argument can be dispatched on, and the . . . argument should be used
if other arguments to the generic will be permitted. These arguments cannot
b e dispatched on, however. So in the code below, the generic function has two
named arguments, object and x, and methods can be defined that indicate
dierent signatures for these two arguments.
> setGeneric("foo", function(object, x) standardGeneric("foo"))
[1] "foo"
>
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ISBN: 9781420063677