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Hi I have the code like I show below. The problem here is that I have a setReplacementMethod to set the value of my class slot. However, this function doesn't work when I call it within another function definition (declared by setMethod) of the same class. I do not understand this behavior that much. I'm wondering how to make this work? Any help would be really appreciated. Thank y...

I defined an S4 class with a slot i. Then I wrote a regular function that attempted to increment i. This didn't work, apparently because of the general rule that a function can't change the values of its arguments outside the function. I gather there are ways around it, but the Green book admonishes "cheating on the S evaluation model is to be avoided" (p. 190). Thinking that