Hadley Wickham | An introduction to R7 | RStudio (2022)

The R7 package is a new OOP system designed to be a successor to S3 and S4. It has been designed and implemented collaboratively by the RConsortium Object- Oriented Programming Working Group, which includes representatives from R-Core, BioConductor, RStudio/tidyverse, and the wider R community.
In this talk, I'll introduce R7 to the wider world. Attendees will learn why we created R7 and how they can use it to create new classes and packages. I hope to inspire folks to download, try it out, and give us the feedback we need to make it better.
Session: Just typing R code: advanced R programming

[@Dreaming-11]

Great addition to R system, congratulations for the effort

[@AntoineFabri]

str_reverse doesn't exist in stringr, but we have strings::stri_reverse, for those wondering :)

[@CaryReams]

I smell a syntactic sugar pre-compiler brewing, ala typescript and babel. As its input, a classical OO class definition; as output, a package of new_generic(), method(), and new_class() statements.

[@meryplays8952]

Now it is called S7.

[@postylem]

came here to say this.

[@mubangansofu7469]

correct S3+S4 = S7 .... reminds me of my chemistry classes back in high school years ago! great addition to R

[@meryplays8952]

When are we seeing it in base R? I think it is better than both S3 and S4.

[@alexandrodisla6285]

good

[@DaarShnik]

Couldn't a method check if thr generic is not available then create one... Rather then defining an empty line for generic which doesn't make much sense...❤

[@user-os3uz4yn4j]

Could I use R7 for package development? tried ,failed;