[Rd] S4 Slot assignment within function

[Martin Morgan]

On 06/03/2011 02:03 PM, mcguirebc wrote:
> Is there a simple way to assign values to S4 slots from within a function?
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> Doing this doesn't work:
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>> assign_slot<-function(x){
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> assign("OBJECT at slot",x,envir=parent.env(environment())
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> }
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>> assign_slot(x)
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> All I get from this is a new object with the name OBJECT at slot, the slot
> assignment of OBJECT doesn't change.
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> I have thought about solutions such as eval(parse()) to pull this off, but
> would prefer not to ugly up the code.
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> Thoughts??
>
> I have searched rather thoroughly, but it is possible I overlooked
> something. If I did, apologies.

Maybe you're looking for ?ReferenceClasses rather then S4 classes?

Martin

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