forName.Class: Gets a Class object by a name of a class

In HenrikBengtsson/R.oo: R Object-Oriented Programming with or without References

Gets a Class object by a name of a class

Description

Gets a Class object by a name of a class. If no such class exists and exception is thrown.

Usage

## Static method (use this):
## Class$forName(name, ...)

## Don't use the below:
## S3 method for class 'Class'
forName(static, name, ...)

Arguments

...	Optional arguments passed to internal lookup function.

Value

Returns a Class.

Author(s)

Henrik Bengtsson

See Also

class(). setConstructorS3(). For more information see Class.

Examples

  print(Class$forName("Exception"))

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