S7

An Object Oriented System Meant to Become a Successor to S3 and S4

Hadley Wickham, Martin Maechler, Jim Hester, Davis Vaughan, Tomasz Kalinowski, Will Landau, Michael Lawrence, Luke Tierney

Last update: 17 September 2023

Software version identifier: 0.1.0, 0.1.1

Copyright license: MIT license, File License

Description

A new object oriented programming system designed to be a successor to S3 and S4. It includes formal class, generic, and method specification, and a limited form of multiple dispatch. It has been designed and implemented collaboratively by the R Consortium Object-Oriented Programming Working Group, which includes representatives from R-Core, 'Bioconductor', 'Posit'/'tidyverse', and the wider R community.