Might it be an idea to make "?" a special operator akin to "+" or "[", R users could then write their own help functions - may be even making "?" generic? With the proposed xml help system one could imagine quite sophisticated context sensitive help systems.
Regards, John Marsland PS this has been a very useful debate for those of us enthusiastically using S4 methods. > -----Original Message----- > From: Duncan Murdoch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 12 June 2003 18:54 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Gordon Smyth; John Chambers > Subject: Re: Documenting classes and methods: was [Rd] Re: R-devel > Digest, Vol 3, Issue 23 > > > 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). > > Duncan Murdoch > > ______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > ********************************************************************** This is a commercial communication from Commerzbank AG.\ \ This ... {{dropped}} ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
