[R] Is it possible (/reasonable) to write an as.RefClass function for R "list" class?

[Jeff Newmiller]

Reference classes are implemented with environment objects, which are mutable. Once you convert to list, the converted object is not mutable, since there is no such thing as a mutable list. So I would say your request is not possible.
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Tal Galili <tal.galili at gmail.com> wrote:
>Hello all.
>
>
>I am interested in creating a mutable "list" object in R.
>
>Ideally I would do it through something like this:
>
>x <- list(a = list(1:4), b = "miao", c = 4:1)
>x_RC <- as.RefClass(x)
>attr(x_RC[[2]], "I am") <- "string"
>x_RC[[3]] <- x_RC[[3]]+1
>x_new <- as.list(x_RC)
>
>Is that reasonably possible to create? Or does that make
>little/no-sense?
>
>Thanks.
>
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