[R] books:

[Gabor Grothendieck]

Not precisely an answer to your question but here are some
OO R links that I have collected over time.  Not sure if 
all these links still work.

<a href="http://www.stat.wisc.edu/~st771-1/slides/wk2-4.pdf">Bates</a> | 

<a href="http://www.maths.lth.se/help/R/">Bengtsson</a> | 

<a href="http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/ms/departments/sia/Sbook/">Chambers</a> | 

<a href="http://biosun1.harvard.edu/courses/individual/bio271/">Gentleman</a>
 | 

<a href="http://faculty.washington.edu/tlumley/Rcourse/objects.pdf">Lumley</a> | 

<a href="http://maths.newcastle.edu.au/~rking/R/devel/03a/0969.html">Symth</a>

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Date:   Wed, 25 Feb 2004 12:42:13 -0800 
From:   Vadim Ogranovich <vograno at evafunds.com>
To:   R Help List <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch> 
Subject:   [R] books: "Programming with Data: A Guide to the S Language" vs." S Programming" 

 
Hi,

Could someone please compare "Programming with Data: A Guide to the S
Language" by J. Chambers and " S Programming" by W. Venables and B.
Ripley? Ideally, I need a "guide" for writing R OO-style packages that
intensively interact with C/C++ libraries.

The specific project I have in mind is to write a thin and limited
DB-connectivity package that would interact with Oracle via its OCCI
interface (it's an intention subject to time availability and project
complexity). If you've been there or somehow think this is a daunting
task I'd love to hear from you.

Thanks,
Vadim