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Hi wizards, I have a question. Which programming paradigm does R handle? . Iam looking for this information but I didn't found nothing. Thanks in advance. personal web site: http://www.geocities.com/ricardo_rios_sv/index.html -- personal web site: http://www.geocities.com/ricardo_rios_sv/index.html

Hi, Being relatively new to OO programming and not so old on R, I noticed the possibility to do OO programming in R. But it seems there is two "paradigms" S3 that seems the old one but is the one used in the R.oo package and S4 which seems more recent As a starting point, which one is best to use? Is R.oo useful? what are the main difference between the two? Any feedback

Hi wizards, I need to know how can I generate this numbers I have n numbers N1,N2 , Nn , but Nn = 1- sum(N1+N2+...+Nn-1) and sum(N1+N2+..Nn)=1 and N1,N2,..Nn with 0<N<1 . Does somebody know how to generate it ? Some distribution or algorithm. Thanks in advance. -- Web Page http://www.geocities.com/ricardo_rios_sv/index.html

Hello everybody, please excuse my bad English. I am Alfredo Naime and I'm from to Venezuela. I want to make a lib with tools for simulation (queues, inventories, factory, etc.) using object-oriented programming (OOP). You have any manuals on the handling of data types, classes, inheritance, etc. in R with examples and how to make a R lib. Thank you, very much. Alfredo

I have a small S4 class for which I've written a page grouping many of the accessors and replacement functions together. I would be interested in people comments on the approach I've taken. The code has a couple of decisions for which I could imagine alternatives. First, even simple get/set operations on class elements are wrapped in functions. I suppose I could just use myinstance at

I'd like to have a class A that computes a likelihood, and a subclass B that computes the same likelihood by sometimes throws in an additional term (B includes measurement error). So B's likelihood needs to call A's, and then (sometimes) multiply by an additional term. It sounds as if, in the S3 scheme, NextMethod is supposed to do this: like.A <- function(stuff) compute value

I've been looking at documenting S4 classes and methods, though I have a feeling many of these issues apply to S3 as well. My impression is that the documentation system requires or recommends creating basically the same information in several places. I'd like to explain that, see if I'm correct, and suggest that a more automated framework might make life easier. PROBLEM Consider a

Hi all We all know the model-controller-paradigm: I have a model "News" which has a corresponding CRUD-controller "NewsController". But now I''m quite unsure about the following... Guess we have normal visitors that visit our site www.??.com/news and we have administrators that create and modify news items. The admin should see an "Edit" link and a

I defined an S4 class with a slot i. Then I wrote a regular function that attempted to increment i. This didn't work, apparently because of the general rule that a function can't change the values of its arguments outside the function. I gather there are ways around it, but the Green book admonishes "cheating on the S evaluation model is to be avoided" (p. 190). Thinking that

Dear list, I was wondering how to best implement some sort of a "plugin" paradigm using R methods and the dispatcher: Say we have a function/method ('foo') that does something useful, but that should be open for extension in ONE specific area by OTHERS using my package. Of course they could go ahead and write a whole new 'foo' method including the features they'd

Hi R-listers, I am trying to better undertand what we would call "functional paradigm" use of S/R to better map my programming activities in other languages. This little function is aimed to create an object (at the end end, it would have it's own class): -- myObject =function(){ list( a=1, foo=function(b) { cat("b:",b)

Hello there, I am basically a J2EE refugee fascinated with Rails. I have been using the Spring framework (a lightweight J2EE java framework with some special characteristics) but I am so impressed with RoR that I am porting over many applications. In order to "dive into Rails", of course the second thing to do was get myself an IDE, and since I''ve been using Eclipse for the

Hi All, Title: Non-normal data issues in PhD software engineering experiment I hope I am not breeching any terms of this forum by this rather general post. There are very R specific elements to this rather long posting. I will do my best to clearly explain my experiment, goals and problems here but please let me know if I have left out any vital information or if there is any ambiguity that I

There has been recent discussion about alternatives to the model-based standard error estimators for lm. While some people like the sandwich estimator and others don't, it is clear that neither estimator dominates the other for any sane loss function. It is also worth noting that the sandwich estimator is the default for t.test(). I think it would be useful for models using other

I feel the need to protest about a disturbing trend in the vibrant RoR community - name dilution. ActiveRecord is called that precisely because it is that. The name come from Martin Fowler, and it expresses a class which is a database record, only _active_ - that is with methods & behaviors (unlike a classical database record, which is completely passive.) If you look in the

I have 3 years of experience with R and have an interest in becoming a better programmer so that I might someday be able to contribute packages. Other than R, my only experience was taking Lisp from Daniel Friedman in the 1970's. I would like to learn either C or C++ for several reasons: To gain a better concept of object oriented programming so that I can begin to use S4 methods in R. To

I''m curious -- how many of us came to Rails from other branches of the OO world -- Java, C# -- and how many of us came from the design or non-OO scripting worlds? Reason I ask is that I''m finding Rails a blast and very productive, but I think one reason is that I already cut my teeth on MVC and ORM during two years of writing apps with J2EE/Struts/Hibernate. And in Javaland, it

Dear R Wizards---is it possible to get R to show its current call stack (sys.calls()) upon an error abort? I don't use ESS for execution, and it is often not obvious how to locate how I triggered an error in an R internal function. Seeing the call stack would make this easier. (right now, I sprinkle "cat" statements everywhere, just to locate the line where the error appears.) Of

I am new to R programming but have dived into a medium sized modelling software development project. Having come from a Java OO background I have a couple of questions about S4 objects. Is there a way to make S4 slots (and methods) private and hence force the use of accessor methods? Is there a straight-forward way to implement pass-by-reference for method parameters? I am currently

(1) It seems to me that, generally, in R it is not possible to overload functions. Is that right? (2) Assuming that the above is true, or partially true, is there any extra packages to handle overloading in R? (3) Assuming (1) is TRUE and (2) is FALSE, can anyone provide some advice on developing some function that understand what the arguments are and then calls the right overloaded