[R] S3 object

[Uwe Ligges]

stat stat wrote:

> hi all,
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>   Somewhere I got a phrase - the function returns a S3 object of class "hclust" - can anyone tell me what is "S3 objects"?

Simply an object with a "class" attribute.

See chapter "Object-oriented programming" in the R Language Definition 
manual.

Uwe Ligges



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