R help - Mar 2011 - Referring to objects themselves

Is it possible to refer to an object from within a method, as in *this *in
Java?  I can't find anything about this in the documentation.  Sorry if I
missed it.

Thanks.

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On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 6:34 PM, Russ Abbott <russ.abbott at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Is it possible to refer to an object from within a method, as in *this *in
> Java? ?I can't find anything about this in the documentation. ?Sorry if
I
> missed it.
>
Assuming you are referring to S3, the first argument to a method is
the object (unless specified otherwise in the UseMethod call but that
is rarely done).


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You might want to check out Reference Classes (?SetRefClass). The object
itself is stored in '.self' and can be referenced that way.

HTH,
Janko

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Is it possible to refer to an object from within a method, as in *this *in
Java?  I can't find anything about this in the documentation.  Sorry if I
missed it.

Thanks.

*-- Russ Abbott*
*_____________________________________________*
***  Professor, Computer Science*
*  California State University, Los Angeles*

*  Google voice: 747-*999-5105
*  blog: *http://russabbott.blogspot.com/
  vita:  http://sites.google.com/site/russabbott/
*_____________________________________________*

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