[R] help with oop in R - class structure and syntex

[hadley wickham]

On Feb 6, 2008 10:13 AM, tom soyer <tom.soyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Gabor. I guess true oo encapsulation is not possible in R.

Before making such a claim, I would encourage you to actually learn
what oo means.  A couple of good readings are:

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs.
http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/

Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming.
http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/book.html

Java style (message passing) oo is not the entirety of oo-based programming!

Hadley

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