The Bioconductor project posts a short tutorial "A guide to using S4 Objects" under "Developer Page" frame. I've found it useful.
Note that R-s S4-classes approach to OOP is very different from the one of C++ or Java. Yet you will find member vars, they are called slots. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matthew Walker > Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 7:56 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [R] Object oriented programming resources > > Hi, > > I'm looking for resources to read about the object-oriented > features of R. > > I have looked through the "Manuals" page on r-project.org. > The most useful of the documents seemed to be the "draft of > the R language definition". However it had only about 6 > pages on the topic. > > I have also used Google, but my problem here is that "R" appears in a > *lot* of webpages! I tried limiting the search by using > "site:r-project.org", but didn't find anything very useful. > > Specifically, I'm trying to find information on "member > variables" (I think that's the correct term), as I'd like to > copy this concept from C++: > > class a { > ... > private: > int x; // I think the term for this is a member variable }; > > Thanks for your thoughts, > > Matthew > > ______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
