Conversation

Sean Davis: It got me going quickly with S4 methods, which it seems to me are the way to go in most cases.
Rolf Turner: If you want to simultaneously handcuff yourself, strap yourself into a strait jacket, and tie yourself in knots, and moreover write code which is incomprehensible to the human mind, then S4 methods are indeed the way to go.
-- Sean Davis and Rolf Turner (expressing different views about the benefits of S4 classes)
R-help (May 2005) #Rstats