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% File src/library/methods/man/methods-package.Rd
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% Part of the R package, http://www.R-project.org
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% Copyright 1995-2007 R Core Team
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% Distributed under GPL 2 or later
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\name{methods-package}
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\alias{methods-package}
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\docType{package}
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\title{
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Formal Methods and Classes
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}
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\description{
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Formally defined methods and classes for R objects, plus
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other programming tools, as described in the references.
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}
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\details{
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  This package provides the \sQuote{S4} or \sQuote{S version 4}
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  approach to methods and classes in a functional language.
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  See the documentation entries \code{\link{Classes}},
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  \code{\link{Methods}}, and \code{\link{GenericFunctions}} for general discussion of these topics, at a
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  fairly technical level.  Links from those pages, and the
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  documentation of \code{\link{setClass}} and \code{\link{setMethod}}
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  cover the main programming tools needed.
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  For a complete
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  list of functions and classes, use \code{library(help="methods")}.
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}
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\references{
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 Chambers, John M. (2008)
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 \emph{Software for Data Analysis: Programming with R}
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  Springer.  (For the R version.)
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 Chambers, John M. (1998)
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 \emph{Programming with Data}
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 Springer (For the original S4 version.)
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}
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\author{
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R Core Team
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Maintainer: R Core Team \email{R-core@r-project.org}
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}
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\keyword{ package }
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\keyword{ methods }