which OO programming style in R will result readable to a Python programmer?

Question

I\'m author of the logging package on CRAN, I don\'t see myself as an R programmer, so I tried to make it as code-compatible with the Python standard logging package as I co

Answer 1

Sounds like a job for a reference class ?setRefClass, ?ReferenceClasses

Logger <- setRefClass("Logger",
                  fields=list(name = "character"),
                  methods=list(
                    log = function(level, ...) 
                          { levellog(level, ..., logger=name) },
                    debug = function(...) { log("DEBUG", ...) },
                    info = function(...) { log("INFO", ...) },
                    warn = function(...) { log("WARN", ...) },
                    error = function(...) { log("ERROR", ...) }
                    ))

and then

> basicConfig()
> l <- Logger$new(name="hierarchic.logger.name")
> l$debug("oops")
> l$info("oops")
2011-02-11 11:54:05 NumericLevel(INFO):hierarchic.logger.name:oops
> l$warn("oops")
2011-02-11 11:54:11 NumericLevel(WARN):hierarchic.logger.name:oops
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