[R] Is it possible to have data stuctures like in C ?

[Samuel Plessis-Fraissard]

Thomas Lumley <tlumley at u.washington.edu> writes:

|On 7 Apr 2003, Samuel Plessis-Fraissard wrote:
|
|> I'am a very fresh R user and I'd like to know how I could create such
|> structures.
|>
|> I saw R was objects-oriented but I can not find any doccumentation on
|> about how to build my hown ojects.
|>
|
|You can build arbitrarily complex structures using lists (and lists of
|lists, and...).
|
|This isn't what people mean when they describe R as object-oriented,
|though.
|
|There are two systems for handling generic and method functions, so you
|can say
|    print(x)
|or
|    plot(x)
|
|and the appropriate function for printing or plotting an `x' will be
|called.
|
|While there is some documentation (see ?class, ?UseMethod, and help for
|the `methods' package) and there are quite a lot of examples in R itself
|and in the Bioconductor project you probably want to read a book on S
|programming.
|

Thanks