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I do not understand why one should use a S3 preferentially on a S4 class, if 
S4 is more rigorous.

(The premiss is I am a newbie with OO programming in R, and would like to 
understand what is the "proper" way to OO program in R ....)

Regards



On Saturday 29 August 2009 16:23:39 hadley wickham wrote:
> >> An opening curly brace should never go on its own line;
> >
> > I tend to do this:
> >
> > f <- function()
> > {
> >  if (TRUE)
> >    {
> >      cat("TRUE!!\n")
> >    } else {
> >      cat("FALSE!!\n")
> >    }
> > }
> >
> > (I don't usually put one-liners in if/else blocks; here I would have
> > used ifelse)
> >
> > I haven't seen many others format code in this way. Is there an
> > objective reason for this (such as the rule for the trailing "}") or
> > is this just aesthetics?
>
> It's probably just aesthetics.  I don't like it because it increases
> the number of lines without much real benefit - indenting already
> gives you all the hints you need.
>
> Hadley



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