On 03/11/2021 3:42 p.m., Duncan Murdoch wrote:
On 03/11/2021 2:54 p.m., Andrew Simmons wrote:
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As a side note, I would suggest making your class through the methods package, with methods::setClass("pm", ...) See the documentation for setClass for more details, it's the recommended way to define classes in R.That's incorrect. It is *a* recommended way to define classes in R, but there are other recommended ways as well, for doing other kinds of things, and many people stick with the S3 system without formal classes at all.
In fact, Andrew was paraphrasing some documentation, so his statement isn't incorrect.
Duncan Murdoch
If you're writing a Bioconductor package you should probably use the formal methods. If you're writing code for other purposes, you should think about whether you need formal classes at all, and if so, whether the methods package formalism is a match for what you're doing. Duncan Murdoch
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