> You are supposed to do: > > ?summary.lm > ?summary.data.frame > > for S3 methods. The former works, the latter doesn't - which is > probably considered a bug, but then the usage of some of the > generics are probably considered obvious and fundamental enough > that summary.data.frame doesn't really behave in any substantially > different way compared to what is said in ?summary and ?Summary .
Well, I know that, and you know that, but how is anyone supposed to figure it out? It means that you need to have a working knowledge of the S3 and S4 class systems before you can use the help to reliably get the documentation you need. Hadley ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel