What does "S3 methods" mean in R?

What does "S3 methods" mean in R?

r oop r-faq r-s3 r-s4

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Safely creating S3 Generics in R

r generics r-s3

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S3 method consistency warning when building R package with Roxygen

r r-s3

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Proper way to implement S3 dispatch on R6 classes

r r-s3 r6

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Defining custom print methods for arrays and atomic vectors

r r-s3

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Getting the object name for S3 print method failing

r r-s3

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How to use S3 methods from another package which uses export rather than S3method in its namespace without using Depends or library()

r package r-package r-s3

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S3 method help (roxygen2)

r roxygen2 r-s3

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override S3 methods in base R

r r-s3

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What are S1 and S2 classes?

oop r r-s3 r-s4

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Why doesn't class(data.frame(...)) show list inheritance?

r r-s3

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