opts_object: Constructive options for class 'object'

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Constructive options for class 'object'

Description

These options will be used on objects of class 'object'. The 'object' type is particular in that it is an internal type in base R, but can only be produced at time of writing through the 'S7' package. Well this is not completely true since those can be built from S4 objects that we remove the S4 flag from by using asS3(x, complete = FALSE) but we don't propose this for now.

Usage

opts_object(constructor = c("prototype", "S7_object"), ...)

Arguments

constructor	String. Name of the function used to construct the object.
...	Additional options used by user defined constructors through the opts object

Details

Depending on constructor, we construct the object as follows:

• "S7_object" (default): We build the object using S7::S7_object(). At the time of writing, this is currently the only way to create these objects.

• "next" : Use the constructor for the next supported class.

Value

An object of class <constructive_options/constructive_options_object>

constructive documentation built on Nov. 5, 2025, 7:14 p.m.