compositions (version 2.0-2)

rcomp-class: Class "rcomp"

Description

The S4-version of the data container "rcomp" for compositional data. More information in rcomp

Objects from the Class

A virtual Class: No objects may be directly created from it. This is provided to ensure that rcomp objects behave as data.frame or structure under certain circumstances. Use rcomp to create these objects.

Slots

.Data:

Object of class "list" containing the data itself

names:

Object of class "character" with column names

row.names:

Object of class "data.frameRowLabels" with row names

.S3Class:

Object of class "character" with the class string

Extends

Class "'>data.frame", directly. Class "'>compositional", directly. Class "'>list", by class "data.frame", distance 2. Class "'>oldClass", by class "data.frame", distance 2. Class "'>vector", by class "data.frame", distance 3.

Methods

coerce

signature(from = "rcomp", to = "data.frame"): to generate a data.frame

coerce

signature(from = "rcomp", to = "structure"): to generate a structure (i.e. a vector, matrix or array)

coerce<-

signature(from = "rcomp", to = "data.frame"): to overwrite a composition with a data.frame

References

see rcomp

See Also

see rcomp

Examples

# NOT RUN {
showClass("rcomp")
# }