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forName.Class

Gets a Class object by a name of a class

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

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

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

...

Optional arguments passed to internal lookup function.

Returns a Class.

Henrik Bengtsson

print(Class$forName("Exception"))

R Object-Oriented Programming with or without References

v1.24.0

LGPL (>= 2.1)

Authors

Henrik Bengtsson [aut, cre, cph]

Initial release