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 maintenance for package developers. For example, generic functions are created automatically, if missing, and naming conflict are automatically solved, if possible. The method setMethodS3() is a good start for those who in the future may want to migrate to S4. This is a cross-platform package implemented in pure R that generates standard S3 methods. This contents of this package was extracted from the R.oo package [1].
To install this package do
install.packages("R.methodsS3")
To get the "devel" version, see https://github.com/HenrikBengtsson/R.methodsS3/.
This package only requires a standard R installation.
To get started, see:
setMethodS3() - Simple and safe creation of S3 methods
and, whenever needed, automatic creation of S3 generic function.
For a detailed introduction to the package, see [1].
Whenever using this package, please cite [1] as
Bengtsson, H. The R.oo package - Object-Oriented Programming with References Using Standard R Code, Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Distributed Statistical Computing (DSC 2003), ISSN 1609-395X, Hornik, K.; Leisch, F. & Zeileis, A. (ed.), 2003
The releases of this package is licensed under LGPL version 2.1 or newer.
[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. https://www.r-project.org/conferences/DSC-2003/Proceedings/