[Rd] Class generator functions for reference classes

John Chambers jmc at r-project.org
Sat Oct 27 23:07:34 CEST 2012


As of rev. 61035 in r-devel, setRefClass() now returns a generator 
function, as setClass() has done since 2.15.0.

The convenient style is now:
   mEdit <- setRefClass("mEdit",......)
   xx <- mEdit(data = xMat)

instead of
   xx <- mEdit$new(data = xMat)

The returned object still has fields and methods accessible as before.

See the "Value" and "Reference Class Generators" sections of 
?ReferenceClasses for details.

Thanks to Romain François for suggesting this.

John



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