mutatr: mutable objects for R

• Hadley Wickham.
• mutatr: mutable objects for R.
• Computational Statistics, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 405––418, 2011.
• [Special issue for Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Directions in Statistical Computing.]

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Programming paradigms help us understand the differences and similarities between fundamental choices in language design. This paper looks at R in the context of three paradigms of object oriented programming: mutable vs. immutable objects, generic-function vs message-passing methods, and class-based vs. prototype-based inheritance.

The paper also describes a new OO package for R, mutatr, which provides mutable objects with message-passing methods and prototype-based inheritance. The mutatr package is available on CRAN.

@Article{mutatr,
  author = {Hadley Wickham},
  doi = {10.1007/s00180-011-0235-7},
  journal = {Computational Statistics},
  note = {Special issue for Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Directions in Statistical Computing.},
  number = {3},
  pages = {405––418},
  title = {mutatr: mutable objects for R},
  volume = {26},
  year = {2011},
  bdsk-url-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00180-011-0235-7},
}