[Rd] "[[" strips the S4 class for classes extending environment

[John Chambers]

`[[<-`, that is.  Right, the primitive code is not retaining the 
subclass information.

Should be fixed in r-devel and 2.12 patched from revision 53547.

Thanks for the catch.

On 11/10/10 3:32 AM, Vitalie S. wrote:
> Dear Developers,
>
> A recently patched [[ for environment class returns a blank environment for a
> children class:
>
> setClass("myenv", contains = "environment")
> #[1] "myenv"
> env<- new("myenv")
> class(env)
> #[1] "myenv"
> #attr(,"package")
> #[1] ".GlobalEnv"
> env[["a"]]<- 343
> class(env)
> [1] "environment"
>
> It looks like not being an intended behavior.
>
> Best,
> Vitalie.
>
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