Louis Kates's research while affiliated with Technische Universität Dresden and other places

Publications (3)

Technical Report
Full-text available
proto is an R package which facilitates a style of programming known as prototype pro- gramming. Prototype programming is a type of object oriented programming in which there are no classes. proto is simple yet retains the object oriented features of delegation (the proto- type counterpart to inheritance) and object oriented dispatch. proto can be...
Technical Report
Full-text available
To the extent that object-orientation has influenced languages for statistical computation, the approach taken to date has been predominantly based on the notion of classes as the key organizing principle; however, there exists another possibility – the object-based or prototype approach to object-oriented programming. The use of prototype-based pr...

Citations

... R.oo [41] allowed S3 objects to become mutable, but its latest development efforts were completed in 2019. proto was another package for prototype programming, used for both class-free and class-based OO, but its latest version available is from 2016, and its original repository has been removed [42]. ...