Thank you! As an R newbie I sometimes find it confusing that in R everything can be done in at least four different ways. My question about S4/OOP was motivated by the fact that those two class systems have the same designer (Chambers). It is as if Chambers has designed an "S5" system that has less shortcomings than S4.  For instance, I find it incredibly ugly that S4 methods can be defined independently of their class definitions. At first glance, OOP seems more intuitive. I have no knowledge of R.oo or proto.
 


Cheers!!
Albert-Jan

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From: schuster <mail@friedrich-schuster.de>
Subject: Re: [R] OOP module
To: r-help@r-project.org
Date: Tuesday, July 27, 2010, 7:01 AM



Hello, 

My impression is that the OOP package is not used that often.

For alternatives (R.oo, proto) see the posts of Gabor Grothendieck:
http://www.mail-archive.com/r-help@r-project.org/msg73565.html
http://www.mail-archive.com/r-help@r-project.org/msg75308.html

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On Monday 26 July 2010 05:52:13 pm Albert-Jan Roskam wrote:
> Hello,
> �
> Does anybody know if the OOP module (Chambers & Temple Lang) is going to
>  replace the the S4 (and the S3) class system?
>  http://www.omegahat.org/OOP/oop.pdf
> 
> Cheers!!
> Albert-Jan
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