Terry Therneau
2009-Aug-13 18:49 UTC
[R] Need Advice: Considering Converting a Package from S3 to S4 -- reprise
I read the list in digest form which sometimes makes me late to respond. Peter Dalgaard wrote: In all fairness, it should probably be noted that quite a few people swear BY S4 in addition to those who swear AT it. Lest I give the impression of only dislike -- the coxme package (major rewrite nearly done, I'm now testing) depends heavily on the bdsmatrix package which implements a very particular subset of sparse matrix methods. Coxme uses S3 classes, bdsmatrix use S4 classes, and I think I made the right decision in both cases. I'm glad people found the C++ reference enjoyable. Terry T.