How to access the slots of an S4 object in R

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zaire90 picture zaire90 · Oct 27, 2012 · Viewed 21.8k times · Source

I'm working with wavelets on a program and I'm used the package wavelets to create the DWT of a time series using the function dwt. This function returns an object of class dwt, which is a S4 object with many slots: W, V, levels, filter, and so on.

How can I access the W's as a vector?

Answer

Ari B. Friedman picture Ari B. Friedman · Oct 27, 2012

@ will let you access the slots of an S4 object.

So if your object is called wave, then wave@W should get you your vector.

Note that often the best way to do this is to not access the slot directly but rather through an accessor function (e.g. coefs() rather than digging out the coefficients with $ or @). However, often such functions do not exist so you have to access the slots directly. This will mean that your code breaks if the internal implementation changes, however.

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