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New: new with namespaced class name

Description

Convenience function for methods::new() that ensures that the provided class name is namespaced with a package name.

Usage

New(Class, ...)

Arguments

Class

the name of the S4 class to be instantiated

...

additional parameters for methods::new()

Details

If the provided class name is not already namespaced (see methods::packageSlot()), it will be namespaced with this package. This mechanism is used by new() to disambiguate if the class name clashes with a class defined in another package.