R: Extract Slots

slotOp {base} | R Documentation

## Extract Slots

### Description

Extract the contents of a slot in a object with a formal (S4) class structure.

### Usage

    object@name

### Arguments

`object` | An object from a formally defined (S4) class.
`name` | The character-string name of the slot.

### Details

This operator supports the formal classes of package methods, and is enabled only when methods is loaded (as per default). See `slot` for further details.

It is checked that `object` is an S4 object (see `isS4`), and it is an error to attempt to use `@` on any other object. (There is an exception for name `.Data` for internal use only.)

If `name` is not a slot name, an error is thrown.

### Value

The current contents of the slot.

### See Also

`Extract`, `slot`

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