S7 bundles S3 definitions for key S3 classes provided by the base packages:
class_data.framefor data frames.class_Datefor dates.class_factorfor factors.class_POSIXct,class_POSIXltandclass_POSIXtfor date-times.class_formulafor formulas.
The concrete wrappers declare their supported attributes, so new_object()
strips foreign attributes when constructing S7 subclasses.