There is a paper on the proto home page http://r-proto.googlecode.com -- click on External Links on the right of the home page and see Prototype-Based Programming in Statistical Computation.
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 5:48 PM, Ted Harding <ted.hard...@manchester.ac.uk> wrote: > Greetings All, > > Out of curiosity, I've just done a very primitive experiment: > > Obj <- list(Fun=sum, Dat=c(1,2,3,4)) > Obj$Fun(Obj$Dat) > # [1] 10 > > That sort of thing (much more sophisticated) must be documented > mind-blowingly somewhere. Where? > > Where I stand right now: The above (and its immediately obvious > generalisations, like Obj$Fun<-cos) is all I know about it so far. > > Ted. > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <ted.hard...@manchester.ac.uk> > Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 > Date: 12-May-10 Time: 22:48:14 > ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------ > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
