On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Steve Lianoglou <mailinglist.honey...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 6:05 PM, Peng Yu <pengyu...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 5:04 PM, Peng Yu <pengyu...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> I don't find a tutorial on S3. "Bengtsson.pdf" cites MASS (1999 >>> edition). However, I don't think that MASS (2002 edition) clearly >>> explain what S3 is and help a user who knew very little about S3 to >>> quickly understand it. Could somebody let me know if there are some >>> better learning materials to help me smooth the learning curve? > > Chapter 7 of The R Inferno talks about them and also directs the > reader to the book: > Software for Data Analysis: Programming with R by John Chambers
Chapter 9 of the above book mentioned S3 but in conjunction with S4. I just want to understand S3 in order to understand R.oo. Although I have created some classes in S4 before, I still have difficulties in understanding what S3 is from the above book. Could somebody recommended a more cleaner description of S3 without cluttered with other irrelevant things? > But, seeing as how you have MASS already and have read up on S3 > classes/methods a bit, perhaps you can elaborate a little more about > what you're having a hard time with? > > -steve > > -- > Steve Lianoglou > Graduate Student: Computational Systems Biology > | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center > | Weill Medical College of Cornell University > Contact Info: http://cbio.mskcc.org/~lianos/contact > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
