I was thinking about a request from someone at Bioc2014 (I can't remember at the moment)
As an end-user, if I have an object x, how can I *quickly* recall the main methods for that? As in, without breaking my flow and going to ?myClass or help("myClass-class"). Suppose x is a GRanges, how can I remember that there is a method called narrow() which works on x? showMethods(classes=class(x)) will print out a huge list for many complex Bioc classes. And printTo=FALSE turns this huge list into an unhelpful character vector, e.g.: head(showMethods(classes="GRanges",printTo=FALSE),8) [1] "" "Function \".asSpace\":" [3] " <not an S4 generic function>" "" [5] "Function \".linkToCachedObject<-\":" " <not an S4 generic function>" [7] "" "Function \".replaceSEW\":" any ideas? _______________________________________________ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel