[R] OOP like handling of lists?

[M.Kondrin]

Thomas Petzoldt wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am writing a package with a collection of several models. In order to 
> allow users to play interactively with the models (in contrast to 
> hacking lengthy scripts), I want to put all what is needed to run a 
> particular model into a single list object for each model.
> 
There is a great introduction to OO programming in R:
John M. Chambers and Duncan Temple Lang. Object-oriented programming in 
R. R News, 1(3):17-19, September 2001.
There was described a more generic model of object-oriented programming 
in R without UseMethod. Think about your object as a function (not a 
list), and about object's methods and fields as a variables in this 
function environment.