Bit registry class (S4) and methods — registry-class • bitfield

A registry stores metadata and flag configuration of a bitfield.

Slots

width: integerish(1)
how many bits is the bitfield wide.
length: integerish(1)
how many observations are encoded in the bitfield.
name: character(1)
short name of the bitfield.
version: character(1)
automatically created version tag of the bitfield. This consists of the package version, the version of R and the date of creation of the bitfield.
md5: character(1)
the MD5 checksum of the bitfield as determined with md5sum.
description: character(1)
longer description of the bitfield.
flags: list(.)
list of flags in the registry.