Slots are linked to S4 objects. A slot can be seen as a part, element or a "property" of an object. Say you have a car object, then you can have the slots "price", "number of doors", "type of engine", "mileage".
插槽Slots和S4对象类型相关。一个插槽可以被看作是一个部分,元素,或者对象的某个特性。比如你有一个对象是车,那么你就有这些插槽:“价格”,“门的数量”,“发动机类型”,“里程数”。
举例如下:
新建:
setClass("Car",representation=representation(
price = "numeric",
numberDoors="numeric",
typeEngine="character",
mileage="numeric"
))
aCar <- new("Car",price=20000,numberDoors=4