> In the alpha of 2.4.0, both suggestions above work, as do ?summary and > ?summary(data.frame()). ?summary(lm()) gives the same man page, rather > than the summary.lm page (but the page does have a link to that page).
That's great. The fact that summary includes a link to summary.lm is relevant for this specific example, but not in general. This is also related to my distaste for having multiple methods documented in one function. As a developer of R packages, I understand why people do it (and do it myself), but as a user of help, it makes the documentation harder to read. > The problem with S3 methods is that it's pretty difficult for R to know > that a particular object is an S3 generic. The only sign is that it has > a call to UseMethod() in it. I think this is one of the motivations for S4. Well, it is even more difficult for a human to know! Hadley ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
