I think you should consider whether the advantages of making an object-aware collections class are worth the effort... lists are the standard tool for this task in R, and are normally handled using the functional programming paradigm. Just make sure a sufficiently-complete set of methods are available for the objects you plan to make lists of. -- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.
On September 14, 2017 7:27:55 AM PDT, Alexander Shenkin <ashen...@ufl.edu> wrote: >>>> Did you read this? >>>> https://cran.r-project.org/doc/contrib/Leisch-CreatingPackages.pdf >>>> >>>> Maybe it could give you some insight in how to create package. >>> >>> That resource is ~9 years old. There are more modern treatments >available. You >>> can read mine at http://r-pkgs.had.co.nz. >>> >>> Hadley >>> > >Thanks both. I'm reading through your new book now Hadley... thanks >for >that. I'll probably take a shot at building a class to hold one tree >per object, and search for objects of a class (per >https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5158830/identify-all-objects-of-given-clas-for-further-processing) > >to implement collections when necessary... > >It does seem like there might be niche out there for a resource for >folks deciding how to structure their package given what they're trying > >to provide; i.e. should they construct a collection of functions, or >class defs, or... Could well exist already, and I may just have missed > >it... > >Thanks, >Allie > >______________________________________________ >R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >PLEASE do read the posting guide >http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
