[R] scoping with methods package

[David R. Bickel]

I am using the methods package in version 1.5.0 of R. I would like to write
a function that can be called by the methods of a class I defined, but that
cannot be called by external functions or by methods of other classes. This
function has arguments that are neither slots nor objects -- the arguments
are numbers to be supplied by the calling methods.

I would appreciate any suggestions on how to do this, or on how to do the
equivalent using a more object-oriented approach. I would also like to know
if the old-style classes might be better for this.

David Bickel
 
http://www.mcg.edu/research/biostat/bickel.html

David R. Bickel, Assistant Professor
Medical College of Georgia
Office of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

Tel.: 706-721-4697; Fax: 706-721-6294
dbickel at mail.mcg.edu or bickel at prueba.info

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