Fritz gave a talk on S4 using pixmap as example at useR! 2004. You might want to start with that. The slides should be on the useR! 2004 web site.
Andy > From: Jeff Enos > > Thanks to Dirk Eddelbuettel, Matthias Kohl, Professor Ripley, and > Bernhard Pfaff for their helpful reponses. > > Here is a list of the packages they recommended: > > CRAN: distr distrEx distrSim distrTEst RandVar CoCo DBI IDPmisc Matrix > RMySQL ROracle RSQLite RUnit SparseM aod arules boolean coin > colorspace copula deal dynamicGraph fBasics(etc) flexclust flexmix > giRaph gpclib its kappalab kernalb limma lme4 matlab monoProc > orientlib partsm pixmap tuneR urca > > R sources: stats4 > > BoiC: most/all > > Which of these are thought (by the community as a whole) to use S4 > classes in a method/style that less experienced programmers like me > should try to learn from and emulate? > > Thanks, > > Jeff > > Prof Brian Ripley writes: > > On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Matthias Kohl wrote: > > > > > Jeff Enos schrieb: > > > > > >> R-devel, > > >> > > >> I'm interested in looking at some examples of existing > R packages that > > >> rely heavily on S4 classes to get a feel for varying styles and > > >> package organization techniques. Could you recommend > any packages > > >> that might serve as a good starting point? > > >> > > >> Thanks in advance, > > >> > > >> Jeff > > >> > > >> > > > our packages distr, distrEx, distrSim, distrTEst and > RandVar are based > > > on S4 classes and methods. > > > > As do many others, providing the variety of styles that > the questioner > > asked for. Those that are documented to do so include > > > > CoCo DBI IDPmisc Matrix RMySQL ROracle RSQLite RUnit > SparseM aod arules > > boolean coin colorspace copula deal dynamicGraph > fBasics(etc) flexclust > > flexmix giRaph gpclib its kappalab kernalb limma lme4 > matlab monoProc > > orientlib partsm pixmap tuneR > > > > on CRAM, stats4 in the R sources and most (all?) of BioC. > > > > -- > > Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Professor of Applied Statistics, > http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ > > University of Oxford, > Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) > > 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) > > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 > > -- > Jeff Enos > Kane Capital Management > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel