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+
+# $Id$
+
+predict.BinaryTree <- function(object, ...) {
+    conditionalTree@predict(object, ...)
+}
+
+predict.RandomForest <- function(object, OOB = FALSE, ...) {
+    RandomForest@predict(object, OOB = OOB, ...)
+}
+
+
+setGeneric("treeresponse", function(object, ...) 
+           standardGeneric("treeresponse"))
+
+setMethod("treeresponse", signature = signature(object = "BinaryTree"),
+    definition = function(object, newdata = NULL, ...)   
+        object@cond_distr_response(newdata = newdata, ...)
+)
+
+setMethod("treeresponse", signature = signature(object = "RandomForest"),
+    definition = function(object, newdata = NULL, ...)   
+        object@cond_distr_response(newdata = newdata, ...)
+)
+
+
+### weights is an S3 generic
+###setGeneric("weights", function(object, ...) standardGeneric("weights"))
+###
+###setMethod("weights", signature = signature(object = "BinaryTree"),
+###    definition = function(object, newdata = NULL, ...)
+###        object@prediction_weights(newdata = newdata, ...)
+###)
+###
+###setMethod("weights", signature = signature(object = "RandomForest"),
+###    definition = function(object, newdata = NULL, OOB = FALSE, ...)
+###        object@prediction_weights(newdata = newdata, OOB = OOB, ...)
+###)
+
+weights.BinaryTree <- function(object, newdata = NULL, ...)
+    object@prediction_weights(newdata = newdata, ...)
+
+weights.RandomForest <- function(object, newdata = NULL, OOB = FALSE, ...)
+    object@prediction_weights(newdata = newdata, OOB = OOB, ...)
+
+
+setGeneric("where", function(object, ...) standardGeneric("where"))
+
+setMethod("where", signature = signature(object = "BinaryTree"),
+    definition = function(object, newdata = NULL, ...) {
+        if(is.null(newdata)) object@where
+	    else object@get_where(newdata = newdata, ...)
+    }
+)
+
+setMethod("where", signature = signature(object = "RandomForest"),
+    definition = function(object, newdata = NULL, ...) {
+        if(is.null(newdata)) object@where
+	    else object@get_where(newdata = newdata, ...)
+    }
+)
+
+
+setGeneric("nodes", function(object, where, ...) standardGeneric("nodes"))
+
+setMethod("nodes", signature = signature(object = "BinaryTree", 
+                                         where = "integer"),
+    definition = function(object, where, ...)
+        lapply(where, function(i) .Call("R_get_nodebynum", object@tree, i))
+)
+
+setMethod("nodes", signature = signature(object = "BinaryTree", 
+                                         where = "numeric"),
+    definition = function(object, where, ...)
+        nodes(object, as.integer(where))
+)