[R] locked environment and inheritance

[Seth Falcon]

johan Faux <johanfaux at yahoo.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I have a S3 package with namespace called "myS3Pkg". Inside my package
> I would like to create a S4 class which extends (adds 2 slots) another
> S4 class from some other package. The class should be created in
> "myPkg" environment (and not global environment).
>
> Using:
>
>
> setClass("myS4class", representation("otherS4class", mydata =
> "numeric"), where = topenv())

have you tried just omitting the where argument?  Classes will get
defined in the package environment and I think that's what you want.

+ seth
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