[Rd] S4 : declaration of inheritance

[Oleg Sklyar]

setClass("myClass",
   representation(x="numeric"),
   contains="fartherClass")

seems more logical to me in sense of syntax (pay attention to setClass 
instead of setMethod and contains instead of containt), but both work 
apparently.

Oleg

christophe.genolini at free.fr wrote:
> Hi the list,
> 
> There is two way to declare a new object with inheritence : one can do
> 
> setMethod("myClass",
>   representation("fatherClass",x="numeric")
>   ....
> 
> or
> 
> setMethod("myClass",
>   representation(x="numeric"),
>   containt="fatherClass"
>   ....
> 
> Is there any difference ? What is the usal way ?
> 
> Christophe
> 
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