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distr6 (version 1.5.6)

DistributionDecorator: Abstract DistributionDecorator Class

Description

Abstract class that cannot be constructed directly.

Arguments

Value

Returns error. Abstract classes cannot be constructed directly.

An R6 object.

Public fields

packages

Packages required to be installed in order to construct the distribution.

Active bindings

methods

Returns the names of the available methods in this decorator.

Methods

Public methods

Method new()

Creates a new instance of this R6 class.

Usage

DistributionDecorator$new()

Method decorate()

Decorates the given distribution with the methods available in this decorator.

Usage

DistributionDecorator$decorate(distribution, ...)

Arguments

distribution

Distribution Distribution to decorate.

...

ANY Extra arguments passed down to specific decorators.

Method clone()

The objects of this class are cloneable with this method.

Usage

DistributionDecorator$clone(deep = FALSE)

Arguments

deep

Whether to make a deep clone.

Details

Decorating is the process of adding methods to classes that are not part of the core interface (Gamma et al. 1994). Use listDecorators to see which decorators are currently available. The primary use-cases are to add numeric results when analytic ones are missing, to add complex modelling functions and to impute missing d/p/q/r functions.

Use decorate or $decorate to decorate distributions.

References

Gamma, Erich, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides. 1994. <U+201C>Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software.<U+201D> Addison-Wesley.