R.oo-package {R.oo} | R Documentation |
Methods and classes for object-oriented programming in R with or without references. Large effort has been made on making definition of methods as simple as possible with a minimum of maintainance for package developers. For example, generic functions are created automatically, if missing, and name conflict are automatically solved, if possible. The method setMethodS3() is a good start for those who in the future want to migrate to S4. The package has been developed since 2001 and is now considered very stable.
Please note that the Rdoc syntax/grammar used to convert Rdoc comments in code into Rd files is not strictly defined and is modified by the need of the author. Ideally, there will be a well defined Rdoc language one day.
To install this package do
install.packages("R.oo")
To get the "devel" version, see http://www.braju.com/R/.
This package only requires a standard R installation. This is a cross-platform package implemented in pure R.
To get started, see:
setMethodS3
() - Simple and safe creation of S3 methods
and, whenever needed, automatic creation of S3 generic function.
Object
- Root class providing support for reference
variables. Any class inheriting from this class supports reference
variables.
For a detailed introduction to the package see [1].
To define static fields, see help on Object
.
Whenever using this package, please cite [1] as
@INPROCEEDINGS{BengtssonH_2003, author = {Henrik Bengtsson}, title = {The {R.oo} package - Object-Oriented Programming with References Using Standard {R} Code}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Distributed Statistical Computing (DSC 2003)}, year = {2003}, editor = {Kurt Hornik and Friedrich Leisch and Achim Zeileis}, address = {Vienna, Austria}, month = {March}, issn = {1609-395X}, howpublished = {http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/Conferences/DSC-2003/}, }
The releases of this package is licensed under LGPL version 2.1 or newer.
Henrik Bengtsson (http://www.braju.com/R/)
[1] H. Bengtsson, The R.oo package - Object-Oriented Programming with References Using Standard R Code, In Kurt Hornik, Friedrich Leisch and Achim Zeileis, editors, Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Distributed Statistical Computing (DSC 2003), March 20-22, Vienna, Austria. http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/Conferences/DSC-2003/Proceedings/