[R] Very simple question R5 setRefClass and Initialize

[Julien Cochennec]

Help anyone? Is this impossible? I tried to use the initFields method 
but it did not change anything.

Le 25/06/2012 10:55, Julien Cochennec a écrit :
> Hi,
> New to this list, and glad I found R5 which si a great improvement to 
> R for my work.
> Something seems odd anyway, when I do a setRefClass, the initialize 
> method execute at the class definition.
> I would like it to execute only when an instance is created.
> How can I do that? I found no way to test if the code execution is 
> when the class definition happens or when a $new instance is created.
> Thanks for your help.
> For example my class definition looks like this :
>
> mongoDbUser = setRefClass("mongoDbUser",
>     fields = list(
>     auth = "logical",
>     host = "character",
>         username = "character",
>     password = "character",
>         db = "character",
>     connector = "mongo"
>     ),
>   methods = list(
>     initialize = function(auth,host,username,password,db,connector){
>       print("initialization")
>     }
>   )
> )
>
> If I execute this code, it says "initialization", but it shouldn't, I 
> created no instance, right??
> I would like "initialization" to appear only when I do :
> mongoDbUser$new(...)
>
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