[R] Methods overview

[Berton Gunter]

V&R's S PROGRAMMING is an excellent reference with a thorough discussion and
examples of S3 methods. It is somewhat less thorough about S4 methods,
perhaps because the implementation was still in process at the time of the
book's writing. Maybe BDR's online complements have more, but I haven't
checked. Nevertheless, the book is still a good place to look for info on S4
methods. I consider it an indispensable reference for those who are even
moderately into S language programming.

-- Bert Gunter
Genentech Non-Clinical Statistics
South San Francisco, CA
 
"The business of the statistician is to catalyze the scientific learning
process."  - George E. P. Box
 
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch 
> [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Sean Davis
> Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 6:17 AM
> To: r-help
> Subject: [R] Methods overview
> 
> Sorry for the very basic, general question.... I have read over the 
> methods aspects of the R Language Reference manual and some 
> of the help 
> pages (methods, setGeneric, etc.) and remain a bit confused 
> yet about R 
> methods.  Looking through the contributed docs and mail 
> archives didn't 
> give me the VERY basic starting material that I feel I am lacking.  
> Could folks share with me a few links or commands of interest to get 
> started?  Also, just a general question, but are S4 methods now the 
> standard?
> 
> Thanks,
> Sean
> 
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