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我正在尝试创建一个从数据框继承的新类:

> setClass('new.frame',
    representation(colour='character'),
    contains = 'data.frame')

这是该类的一个实例,用于测试:

> test_data = data.frame(cbind(runif(5), runif(5)))
> names(test_data) = c('X', 'Y')
> test_frame = new('new.frame', test_data, colour='red')

只是为了确保它看起来没问题...

> data.frame
Object of class "new.frame"
          X         Y
1 0.8766306 0.4741213
2 0.1221508 0.5117665
3 0.4838761 0.4973627
4 0.7858294 0.4064749
5 0.5147703 0.9135304
Slot "colour":
[1] "red"

...并确保继承有效

> is.data.frame(test_frame)
[1] TRUE
> getClass(class(test_frame))
Class "new.frame" [in ".GlobalEnv"]

Slots:

Name:                .Data              colour               names
Class:                list           character           character

Name:            row.names            .S3Class
Class: data.frameRowLabels           character

Extends: 
Class "data.frame", 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

这是我在尝试利用作为数据框的属性时遇到的问题:

> terms.formula(Y ~ X, data = test_frame)
Error in terms.formula(Y ~ X, data = test_frame) : 
  'data' argument is of the wrong type

我可能错过了一些愚蠢的事情。如果是这样,在此先感谢您指出。

如果我对这里的问题是正确的,那么无论如何我可以让 terms.formula 认识到我给它一个 data.frame 的事实吗?

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执行debug(terms.formula)然后运行terms.formula(Y ~ X, data = test_frame)表明您的代码在引用代码块的第 3 行和第 4 行失败:

if (!is.null(data) && !is.environment(data) && !is.data.frame(data)) 
    data <- as.data.frame(data, optional = TRUE)
terms <- .Internal(terms.formula(x, specials, data, keep.order, 
    allowDotAsName))

问题一定是对的调用.Internal(terms.formula())需要一个 'plain old' data.frame,而是传递了一个 class 的对象new.frame。作为一种解决方法,为什么不只传递terms.formula()它期望的对象类型(一个朴素的 data.frame)?

这是一种简单的方法:

terms.formula(Y ~ X, data = unclass(test_frame))
# Y ~ X
# attr(,"variables")
# list(Y, X)
# attr(,"factors")
#   X
# Y 0
# X 1
# attr(,"term.labels")
# [1] "X"
# attr(,"order")
# [1] 1
# attr(,"intercept")
# [1] 1
# attr(,"response")
# [1] 1
# attr(,".Environment")
# <environment: R_GlobalEnv>
于 2012-10-31T07:33:23.420 回答