Base S7 class for mixtime vector objects

class_mixtime is the base S7 class for all mixtime vector objects, inheriting from vecvec::class_vecvec. While not intended to be used directly, this S7 class is suitable to use when defining S7 methods for mixtime vectors. S3 methods can be defined using the mixtime::mixtime class.

Usage

class_mixtime(x = list(), i = seq_len(sum(lengths(x))))

Arguments

x

A list of "mt_time" vectors, see new_time() for details.

i

A vector of integers specifying the location of each element in x as if they were combined in order. The values in i must be between 1 and the total number of elements across all vectors in x, and can contain duplicates. If not provided, it defaults to a sequence from 1 to the total number of elements across all vectors in x.

Value

When used as a class definition (e.g., in S7::method(generic, class_mixtime)), an S7 class object representing the mixtime class, inheriting from vecvec::class_vecvec. When called as a constructor (class_mixtime(list(...))), a mixtime vector of S7 class mixtime (also inheriting the S3 class "mixtime"), containing the supplied list of time vectors as a vecvec::class_vecvec structure. End users should prefer mixtime() or new_mixtime() for construction.

See also

mixtime() for creating mixtime vectors, and new_mixtime() for the low-level constructor function of this S7 class.