The Matrix (Super-) Class of a Class

MatrixClass {Matrix}

R Documentation

Return the (maybe super-)class of class cl from package Matrix, returning character(0) if there is none.

MatrixClass(cl, cld = getClassDef(cl), ...Matrix = TRUE,
            dropVirtual = TRUE, ...)

`cl`	string, class name
`cld`	its class definition
`...Matrix`	`logical` indicating if the result must be of pattern `"[dlniz]..Matrix"` where the first letter "[dlniz]" denotes the content kind.
`dropVirtual`	`logical` indicating if virtual classes are included or not.

...

further arguments are passed to .selectSuperClasses().

a character string

Martin Maechler, 24 Mar 2009

mkA <- setClass("A", contains="dgCMatrix")
(A <- mkA())
stopifnot(identical(
     MatrixClass("A"),
     "dgCMatrix"))

[Package Matrix version 1.2-17 Index]