Version-Management-methods
isOldVersion(object)
conv2NewVersion(object)
# S4 method for ANY
isOldVersion(object)
# S4 method for ANY
conv2NewVersion(object)
# S4 method for LatticeDistribution
conv2NewVersion(object)
object of class "ANY" (or subclasses)
From version 1.9 of this package on, class "AbscontDistribution" has an extra slot
gaps. As the addition of new slots will probably happen again in the future development
of our packages, we provide the following two help functions
isOldVersion and conv2NewVersion to check whether the object was generated by an
older version of this package and to convert such an object to the new format, respectively.
Also, the intermediate class "LatticeDistribution" is introduced at version 1.9
so that all subclasses of "DiscreteDistribution" like "Binom", "Nbinom" etc,
now have an extra slot lattice. conv2NewVersion takes this up and provides
a particular method for signature "LatticeDistribution" which fills slot
lattice accordingly.
signature(object = "ANY"):
throws an error if isClass(class(object)) is FALSE, i.e.; if
the class of object is no formal (S4) class. Else it checks whether
all slots of the actual class definition may be accessed and if so
returns FALSE and else TRUE and issues a warning.
signature(object = "ANY"):
Generates a valid copy of object (according to the actual class definition),
using the slots of object where possible and for the slots which are not yet
present in object (because it was generated by an older version of
the class definition), it generates a prototype object of the class
of object with new(class(object)) and uses
the slot values of this prototype to fill the missing slots.
signature(object = "LatticeDistribution"):
Generates a valid copy of object (according to the actual class definition,
i.e.; with a corresponding lattice-slot), by generating a new instance of
this object by new(class(object), <list-of-parameters>.