Susannah CowtanMar 12, 2024
#S7 does just what I want, but dare I use it in anything that needs to be maintainable? OO R implementations get replaced so quickly. Is it better to just pretend the only options are #S3 and #S4? #rstats
Show threadZhian N. Kamvar
@sjcowtan I think it should be more safe than not to use s7 given that it’s coming from the R consortium. https://github.com/RConsortium/S7/pull/400/files
Draft R dev blog post by t-kalinowski · Pull Request #400 · RConsortium/S7

Draft blog post for the R development blog, detailing the recent changes in base R which enabled S7 to be published to CRAN. (refocused iteration of #311)

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Show threadZhian N. KamvarMar 12, 2024
@sjcowtan ah, I take that back the point in another reply is more prescient.
Show threadBarry RowlingsonMar 15, 2024
@zkamvar @sjcowtan And S4 came from none other than John Chambers. Maybe OO in a functional language is a bad idea...