S4 classes cannot be vectorized in R, as they do not have the necessary attributes to be treated as a vector. However, we can define methods for specific generic functions that help in performing operations on S4 objects stored in a list or a vector.
For example, consider a simple S4 class called "Person" with two slots, "name" and "age":
setClass("Person",
slots = list(name = "character", age = "numeric"))
We can define a method to extract the names of a list of Person objects as follows:
setMethod("names", signature(x = "list"),
function(x) sapply(x, function(y) y@name))
Now, we can use the generic function "names" to extract the names of a vector of Person objects:
p1 <- new("Person", name = "Alice", age = 25)
p2 <- new("Person", name = "Bob", age = 30)
persons <- c(p1, p2)
names(persons)
This will return a vector of names: "Alice" "Bob". Similarly, we can define methods for other generic functions like "length", "[[", and so on to perform operations on S4 objects stored in a vector or list.
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