Package R.oo

Description

Methods and classes for object-oriented programming in R with or without references. Large effort has been made on making definition of methods as simple as possible with a minimum of maintenance for package developers. The package has been developed since 2001 and is now considered very stable. This is a cross-platform package implemented in pure R that defines standard S3 classes without any tricks.

Please note that the Rdoc syntax/grammar used to convert Rdoc comments in code into Rd files is not strictly defined and is modified by the need of the author. Ideally, there will be a well defined Rdoc language one day.

Installation and updates

To install this package do

install.packages("R.oo")

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

Dependancies and other requirements

This package requires a standard R installation and the R.methodsS3 package.

To get started

To get started, see:

1. Object - Root class providing support for reference variables. Any class inheriting from this class supports reference variables.

Further readings

For a detailed introduction to the package see [1]. To define static fields, see help on Object.

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/