[R] Classes implemented in R and packages

Prof Brian Ripley
Fri, 28 Sep 2001 14:17:50 -0000

On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, [ISO-8859-1] José Ernesto Jardim wrote:

> Hi
>
> I'm writing some functions and I want to use some classes and related
> ploting methods.
>
> I want to know if there is a list of classes implemented in R and R
> packages. I want to be shure that I'm not going to implement a class
> with the same name as in other package.

That's impossible to know: there is not even a list of all R packages, and
the contents of those on CRAN changes a few hundred times a year.

It is not even possible to find the list of classes used by a single
package, as the class names can be generated dynamically by R code.

I suggest that if you call your class JoseErnestoJardim.foo you are
likely to be safe.  Well, that's overkill, but use a long descriptive
name to minimize the risk.

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