Slides and Project Workspace for Object Oriented Systems in R: S3, S4, and R6

Scott Chamberlain and Ted Laderas

Required Packages

install.packages(c("R6", "here", "dplyr"))

Getting Started

1. Clone/Download this Repository
2. Unzip (if necessary) to a folder
3. Open the oop_talk.rproj file in RStudio

Talk Material

• Intro Slides
• S3 Classes Slides - Also see S3-objects.Rmd and S3-objects.R
• S4 Classes Programming Notebook - Open up S4-objects.Rmd (R Notebook)
• R6 Classes Programming Notebook - Open up R6-objects.Rmd (R Notebook)

Acknowledgements

Portions of this tutorial are gratefully derived from:

• Hadley Wickham: Advanced R on R's Object systems
• S4 Classes and Methods
• A practical Tutorial on S4 Programming
• S4 Classes
• Advanced R

Thanks to Jim Tyhurst for pointing out that I was mixing multiple inheritance with polymorphism. This mistake has been corrected throughout the material.

License

All code is licensed with a MIT License (see LICENSE.txt) All Material is CC 4.0 By (Please link to us if you use this material!)