Re: OOP enquiry

["Douglas Bates" <bates@stat.wisc.edu>]

On 11/6/06, John Kershaw <kershaw@unb.ca> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I have used S/Splus/R since the mid1980s.  As a former FORTRAN user, I
> have always built code on the fly for the prupose immediately needed and
> have amassed quite a collection of relatively useless functions because
> they only relate to the job I needed done.  I have been reading a bit
> about the OOP approaches and can see a lot of value in this approach (who
> says old dogs can't learn new tricks?).  I have found bits and pieces on
> the web and in the help files/manuals, but would really like a good
> comprehensive source on OOP preferably in R or Splus.  Is there such a
> beast?  If not, what would be a good starting reference for OOP that I
> could relatively easily transfer to R/Splus?  Sorry for the somewhat
> "Non"group posting, but it would be useful to get a samplingpeople's
> perspectives on this.
I think that John Chamber's book "Programming with Data" (a.k.a. "the
green book") would be a good place for you to start.