I found it a very congenial presentation. One related issue -- perhaps -- a new HDF5 interface package, that is based on R6!
https://github.com/hhoeflin/hdf5r Core class consciousness is surely worthy of promotion. But what about OOP methodology? I personally am happy with S4. I believe there are some packages that use setRefClass ... any guidance on this? On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 7:54 PM, Levi Waldron <lwaldron.resea...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm putting together a presentation with a demo on why Bioconductor > developers should re-use and extend core classes whenever possible. It > includes a demo of some real-life consequences from two packages I use a > lot, metagenomeSeq and phyloseq. These are far from the only examples, many > Bioconductor packages have created new classes from scratch, and I think as > a community we should greatly reduce that practice. I would welcome any > feedback: > > https://www.slideshare.net/LeviWaldron/why-reuse-core-classes > > (sorry the slides are a little Frankenstein - in the interest of speed I > made part of it in Powerpoint and part in Beamer, and used pdftk to > concatenate these! In practice I would do the Beamer part as a live-demo, > and take advantage of some animations in PPT) > > > -- > Levi Waldron > http://www.waldronlab.org > Assistant Professor of Biostatistics CUNY School of Public Health > US: +1 646-364-9616 Skype: > levi.waldron > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > _______________________________________________ > Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel
