I read the list in digest form which sometimes makes me late to respond.
Peter Dalgaard wrote:
In all fairness, it should probably be noted that quite a few people
swear BY S4 in addition to those who swear AT it.
Lest I give the impression of only dislike -- the coxme package (major
rewrite
For 90 percent of what I do I strongly prefer the loose (S3) rather than the
rigid (S4) classes. So I'm closer to Rolf. My summary of S4 vs S3
A large increment in
1. nuisance to write
2. difficulty to debug
3. ability to write very obscure code
4. design
Gain
5. ability to
Hi, Terry:
Thanks for the comments. I too vastly prefer S3 to S4. Your
comparison is based on much greater experience than mine.
Could you please check the link you sent? I couldn't get it to
work.
Thanks again.
Spencer
Terry Therneau wrote:
For 90 percent of
spencerg wrote:
Hi, Terry:
Thanks for the comments. I too vastly prefer S3 to S4. Your
Me too. My summary is this:
If you love computer science more than you value your own time, use S4.
Frank Harrell
comparison is based on much greater experience than mine.
Could you
On 8/11/2009 1:24 PM, spencerg wrote:
Hi, Terry:
Thanks for the comments. I too vastly prefer S3 to S4. Your
comparison is based on much greater experience than mine.
Could you please check the link you sent? I couldn't get it to
work.
It's a small typo, the correction
I can see that fortune(S4) is going to produce more than one possible
response
soon ... (is Achim Zeleis listening?)
Ben
Frank E Harrell Jr wrote:
spencerg wrote:
Hi, Terry:
Thanks for the comments. I too vastly prefer S3 to S4. Your
Me too. My summary is this:
If
Ben Bolker wrote:
I can see that fortune(S4) is going to produce more than one possible
response
soon ... (is Achim Zeleis listening?)
Ben
In all fairness, it should probably be noted that quite a few people
swear BY S4 in addition to those who swear AT it.
-p
Frank E Harrell Jr
Hello R Folks...
Not a technical question, but I need some advice and perspective.
I¹ve got a set of functions I¹m planning to put together into a package.
The main hunk of data that gets used by different functions is currently an
S3 list. I¹ve been reading about S4 objects, and I see the
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Bryan Hansonhan...@depauw.edu wrote:
itself doesn't take advantage of much, except the ability to define
subclasses at a later date (maybe that is sufficient reason though).
S3 supports subclasses too.
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Bryan Hanson wrote:
Hello R Folks...
Not a technical question, but I need some advice and perspective.
I¹ve got a set of functions I¹m planning to put together into a package.
The main hunk of data that gets used by different functions is currently an
S3 list. I¹ve been reading about S4
library(fortunes)
fortune(S4)
Sean Davis: It got me going quickly with S4 methods, which it seems to me
are
the way to go in most cases.
Rolf Turner: If you want to simultaneously handcuff yourself, strap yourself
into a strait jacket, and tie yourself in knots, and moreover write code
which
is
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