On Tue, 19 Sep 2006, hadley wickham wrote: >> You are supposed to do: >> >> ?summary.lm >> ?summary.data.frame >> >> for S3 methods. The former works, the latter doesn't - which is
?summary.data.frame does work on my systems. >> 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. For S3 you do to understand that there are different methods, and it is in `An Introduction to R'. And ?summary reminds you. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
