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 *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 5/27/2004 at 2:01 PM Matthias Kohl wrote: >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 > >______________________________________________ >[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list >https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html Dipl. bio-chem. Eryk Witold Wolski @ MPI-Moleculare Genetic Ihnestrasse 63-73 14195 Berlin 'v' tel: 0049-30-83875219 / \ mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---W-W---- http://www.molgen.mpg.de/~wolski ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
