Oleg Sklyar wrote: > similar. S3 gives more freedom in assigning new attributes, but this > freedom also means that one has little control over the structure of an > object making it, for example, more difficult to use with C/C++ code. > Are there any specific benefits in not using S4 and slots (apart from > some known performance issues)? > One could say there are, but not enough to make S3 prevail over S4. I am not sure performance issues matter that much, but debugging functions seems much easier to me with S3 methods. Plus, documenting objects and accessing documentation can be a pain with S4 (see my previous post about using example() [http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/e3/devel/07/12/0801.html] ... still no answer).
Best, Thibaut. <http://adegenet.r-forge.r-project.org/> ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
