NMFSeed: `NMFSeed` is a constructor method that instantiate `NMFSeed` objects.

Description

NMFSeed is a constructor method that instantiate NMFSeed objects.

NMF seeding methods are registered via the function setNMFSeed, which stores them as NMFSeed objects in a dedicated registry.

removeNMFSeed removes an NMF seeding method from the registry.

Usage

NMFSeed(key, method, ...)
  setNMFSeed(..., overwrite = isLoadingNamespace(),
    verbose = TRUE)
  removeNMFSeed(name, ...)

Arguments

key

access key as a single character string

method

specification of the seeding method, as a function that takes at least the following arguments:

object: uninitialised/empty NMF model, i.e. that it has 0 rows and columns, but has already the rank requested in the call to nmf or seed.
x: target matrix

...

extra arguments

...

arguments passed to NMFSeed and used to initialise slots in the NMFSeed object, or to pkgreg_remove.

name

name of the seeding method.

overwrite

logical that indicates if any existing NMF method with the same name should be overwritten (TRUE) or not (FALSE), in which case an error is thrown.

verbose

a logical that indicates if information about the registration should be printed (TRUE) or not (FALSE).

Methods

NMFSeed: signature(key = "character"): Default method simply calls new with the same arguments.
NMFSeed: signature(key = "NMFSeed"): Creates an NMFSeed based on a template object (Constructor-Copy), in particular it uses the same name.