canCoerce | R Documentation |
Test if an object can be coerced to a given S4 class.
Maybe useful inside if()
to ensure that calling
as(object, Class)
will find a method.
canCoerce(object, Class)
object |
any R object, typically of a formal S4 class. |
Class |
an S4 class (see |
a scalar logical, TRUE
if there is a coerce
method
(as defined by e.g. setAs
) for the signature
(from = class(object), to = Class)
.
as
, setAs
,
selectMethod
, setClass
,
m <- matrix(pi, 2,3) canCoerce(m, "numeric") # TRUE canCoerce(m, "array") # TRUE
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