| methods-package {methods} | R Documentation |
Formally defined methods and classes for R objects, plus other programming tools, as described in the references.
This package provides the ‘S4’ or ‘S version 4’ approach to methods and classes in a functional language.
See the documentation entries Classes,
Methods, and GenericFunctions for general discussion of these topics, at a
fairly technical level. Links from those pages, and the
documentation of setClass and setMethod
cover the main programming tools needed.
For a complete
list of functions and classes, use library(help="methods").
R Development Core Team
Maintainer: R Core Team R-core@r-project.org
Chambers, John M. (2008) Software for Data Analysis: Programming with R Springer. (For the R version.)
Chambers, John M. (1998) Programming with Data Springer (For the original S4 version.)