Re: [R] From Java to R OOP

2013-03-26 Thread Francisco J. Bido
Thanks MW! Your comments were very helpful. I also see how the NextMethod() works now. On Mar 25, 2013, at 5:03 AM, R. Michael Weylandt wrote: > On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 6:51 AM, Francisco J. Bido wrote: >> Hi, I'm new to OOP in R so please forgive the naiveness of some of the >> question

Re: [R] From Java to R OOP

2013-03-25 Thread R. Michael Weylandt
On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 6:51 AM, Francisco J. Bido wrote: > Hi, I'm new to OOP in R so please forgive the naiveness of some of the > questions. Here are a couple of them. It would be great if you can contrast > to OOP in Java. Java is not the end-all of OOP (in fact S is a good bit older than

[R] From Java to R OOP

2013-03-25 Thread Francisco J. Bido
Hi, I'm new to OOP in R so please forgive the naiveness of some of the questions. Here are a couple of them. It would be great if you can contrast to OOP in Java. 1. R's S4 appears to centered around a dispatch mechanism which in my understanding is just a way to implement polymorphism. Now,