It is often helpful to have a function behave differently depending on the type of object passed. For example, when summarizing a variable, it makes sense to create a different summary for numeric or string data. It is possible to have a different function for every type of object, but then users would have to remember many function names, and to remain unique, function names may be longer. Object-oriented programming (OOP) is based on objects and is implemented in R (as in most programming languages) by using ...
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Matt Wiley and Joshua F. Wiley, Advanced R, 10.1007/978-1-4842-2077-1_5
5. Writing Classes and Methods
Matt Wiley1 and Joshua F. Wiley1
(1)Elkhart Group Ltd. & Victoria College, Columbia City, Indiana, USA
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