On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 09:32:39 +0200, you wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > >Re using 'foo-methods' as an alias, I am not sure whether this is > >necessary in the long run. To find out which methods are available, we > >can use showMethod(). We should eventually [see below] be able to do > >something like > > > > method ? f(x="character", y = "numeric") > > > >to access the documentation object for the given signature, and there is > >no guarantee that an f-methods Rd object really documents all methods > >for the generic f in the package. So I think eventually we should get > >rid of the default foo-methods alias, and just dump the ones > >corresponding to available methods. > > I hope that at this point we also implement > > ?f(x,y) > > at this point, to give the same result (where x and y are existing > objects of classes "character" and "numeric", respectively).
help on calls was promised at DSC2003, but John wasn't in on that discussion. -- 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 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
