[R] "privileged slots"

[Wolski]

There is a mistake in my e-mail
Of course should be
slot(object,name,check=FALSE)<-value

Sorry.
Eryk


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On 5/27/2004 at 2:56 PM Wolski wrote:

>Hi!
>
>I think that there are no mechanism in S4 to make slots "private".
>But you as a package developer can of course provide accessor functions to
>a public slot anyway and use slot(myslot,value,check=FALSE)
>to switch of the function checkSlotAssignment function and speed up your
>code.
>
>This is how I interpretation of this text of John Chambers.
>
>
>Sincerely
>Eryk
>
>
>
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>On 5/27/2004 at 2:01 PM Matthias Kohl wrote:
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>>Hi all,
>>
>>in the help for RClassUtils I found the expression "privileged slots" in 
>>function "checkSlotAssignment" with the explanation:
>>
>>/privileged slots (those that can only be set by accesor functions 
>>defined along with the class itself)/
>>
>>I thought all slots of a (not private) class can be a accessed by a user 
>>via the @ Operator.
>>Is there a way to make a single slot of a class (not the whole class) 
>>private, so that you can access this slot only via an accessor function 
>>(not via @)?
>>
>>Thanks, for your help
>>Matthias
>>
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