[R] Learning S3

[Hadley Wickham]

On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel<edd at debian.org> wrote:
>
> On 18 June 2009 at 09:36, Bert Gunter wrote:
> | -- or Chapter 4 in S PROGRAMMING? (you'll need to determine if it's "reader
> | friendly")
>
> +1
>
> It helped me a lot too back in the day.  But I am wondering if there are good
> current alternatives.   Hadley: if you could, please send a summary back to
> the list.

Unfortunately there doesn't seem to have been much change since then.
The resources I was pointed to include:

?UseMethod
?Math

Chapter 3.10 in MASS
Chapter 4 in S programming

Also see R.methodsS3 for some functions to make programming with S3
methods easier.

Hadley

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