R help - May 2011 - Is there a (virtual) class that all R objects inherit from?

Dear list,

I would like to set one specific Reference Class field to be of an 
arbitrary class. Is there a class that all R objects inherit from? I 
thought that "ANY" was something like this, but obviously that's
not true:

 > inherits(1:3, "ANY")
[1] FALSE

Regards,
Janko

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On 05/30/2011 07:02 AM, Janko Thyson wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> I would like to set one specific Reference Class field to be of an
> arbitrary class. Is there a class that all R objects inherit from? I
> thought that "ANY" was something like this, but obviously
that's not true:
>
>   >  inherits(1:3, "ANY")
> [1] FALSE
I can't speak to the implementation, but ANY functions as a base class 
in terms of slot / field assignment and inheritance, e.g.,

   setClass("A", representation(x="ANY"))
   new("A", x=1:3)

Martin
>
> Regards,
> Janko
>
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