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R Object-oriented Programming

You're reading from   R Object-oriented Programming A practical guide to help you learn and understand the programming techniques necessary to exploit the full power of R

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2014
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ISBN-13 9781783986682
Length 190 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Inheritance

The Ant class discussed in the first section of this chapter provided an example of how to define a class and then define the methods associated with the class. We will now extend the class by creating new classes that inherit from the base class. The original Ant class is shown in the preceding figure, and now, we will propose four classes that inherit from the base class. Two new classes that inherit from Ant are the Male and Female classes. The Worker class inherits from the Female class, while the Soldier class inherits from the Worker class. The relationships are shown in the following figure. The code for all of the new classes is included in our example codes available at our website, but we will only focus on two of the new classes in the text to keep our discussion more focused.

Inheritance

Relationships between the classes that inherit from the base Ant class

When a new class is created, it can inherit from an existing class by setting the contains parameter. This can be set to...

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