Creating 'tibble classes'

jennybryan · November 9, 2017, 6:43pm

I think this thread will be interesting to you:

Functions that input & output tibbles AND have a class system? Package development

Pardon what is a novice question in a few ways, but I'm interested in use of functions that input and output tibbles and also (possibly) have a class system. My use case is a package for a type of clustering, what is called in my field Latent Profile Analysis. I noticed many beginners to this analysis found the greatest challenge to be figuring out what form the output took. My (proposed) solution was to have the main function in the package take a tibble (or a data.frame) and output a modified tibble - namely, one with the classification, or the profile to which the observation is assigned, in a new column. If this is a good idea, I'm also curious how to additionally have a class system (…