Message-ID: <200505232310.j4NNARsC027095@hertz.gene.com>
Date: 2005-05-23T23:10:27Z
From: Bert Gunter
Subject: SV: [R] Documentation of S3 and S4 classes, inheritance
In-Reply-To: <1116888436.4615.52.camel@iron.libaux.ucsf.edu>
I don't think you quite said what you meant ...
> I thought if you wanted C to inherit from A and B you could, in S3,
> just
> class(aCObject)<- c('C', 'A', 'B')
> While the ordering is arbitrary, that's usually the case with multiple
> inheritance.
>
I assume you meant, "I thought if you wanted aCObject to inherit from A and
B,..."
In S3, classes do not inherit, only objects do. In S4, there is true class
inheritance.
Cheers,
Bert Gunter