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longish
2005 Apr 21
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Objects in R
...'s views, but...
There are real disadvantages to the
"objects-as-C-structs" and functions/methods which
"mutate" based on argument type. i.e. S4.
(1)Novices simply don't understand it. Students are
trained in "standard" object-oriented technique and
this wonkish offshoot(puritanical functional
programming) just increases the information costs to
using R and thus decreases the demand.
(2)Large frameworks benefit from
serializable/storable objects which contain both
functionality and modifiable values. S4 stores
"class" information and R.oo doe...