A programming language structure wherein the data and their associated processing ("methods") are defined as self-contained entities called "objects." Becoming popular in the early 1990s and the norm ...

If you're not familiar with object-oriented programming, some of the concepts can be hard to understand, especially if you're a longtime procedural language programmer. Follow along as we take a look ...

The S3 OOP model is still widely used, so let's use write S3-style OOP code via the R language. The R language was created primarily to perform statistical analyses in an interactive environment using ...

Let's explore factor analysis again, this time using the R ability to tap into OOP, but we won't use the RC model. The R language was created primarily to perform statistical analyses in an ...