[R] getAttrb - Solved

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Nicholas Lewin-Koh wrote:

> I think what I found confusing is the extsenion writers manual states
> 
> "What happens if we want to add an attribute that is not pre-dened? We
> need to add a symbol for it via a call to install. Suppose for
> illustration we
> wanted to add an attribute "version" with value 3.0. We could use 
> 
> { 
> SEXP version; 
> PROTECT(version = allocVector(REALSXP, 1)); 
> REAL(version) = 3.0;
> setAttrib(ans, install("version"), version); 
>  UNPROTECT(1);
> }                  
> 
> So I assumed install was to install the attribute name in the symbol table
> but not to retrieve it. Maybe a little clarification there would help such
> as "intall can also be used in getAttrib() to retrive an attribute
> installed in the sybol table"

Alternatively, just read the very next sentence in that section:

`Using install when it is not needed is harmless and provides a
simple way to retrieve the symbol from the symbol table if it is already
installed.'

I don't think you will find anywhere that it says to use mkChar!

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