Package R.methodsS3

Description

Methods that simplify the setup of S3 generic functions and S3 methods. Major effort has been made in making definition of methods as simple as possible with a minimum of maintainance for package developers. For example, generic functions are created automatically, if missing, and name conflict are automatically solved, if possible. The method setMethodS3() is a good start for those who in the future want to migrate to S4. This is a cross-platform package implemented in pure R and is generating standard S3 methods. This contents of this package was extracted from the R.oo package [1].

Installation and updates

To install this package do

install.packages("R.methodsS3")

To get the "devel" version, see http://www.braju.com/R/.

Dependancies and other requirements

This package only requires a standard R installation.

To get started

To get started, see:

1. setMethodS3() - Simple and safe creation of S3 methods and, whenever needed, automatic creation of S3 generic function.

Further readings

For a detailed introduction to the package, see [1].

How to cite this package

Whenever using this package, please cite [1] as

@INPROCEEDINGS{BengtssonH_2003,
 author       = {Henrik Bengtsson},
 title        = {The {R.oo} package - Object-Oriented Programming
                 with References Using Standard {R} Code},
 booktitle    = {Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on
                 Distributed Statistical Computing (DSC 2003)},
 year         = {2003},
 editor       = {Kurt Hornik and Friedrich Leisch and Achim Zeileis},
 address      = {Vienna, Austria},
 month        = {March},
 issn         = {1609-395X},
 howpublished = {http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/Conferences/DSC-2003/},
}

License

The releases of this package is licensed under LGPL version 2.1 or newer.

Author(s)

Henrik Bengtsson (http://www.braju.com/R/)

References

[1] H. Bengtsson, The R.oo package - Object-Oriented Programming with References Using Standard R Code, In Kurt Hornik, Friedrich Leisch and Achim Zeileis, editors, Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Distributed Statistical Computing (DSC 2003), March 20-22, Vienna, Austria. http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/Conferences/DSC-2003/Proceedings/