On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, michael watson (IAH-C) wrote: > When R help simply states something like: > > Value: > > An object of class '"loess"'. > > How do I find out more about that class? Shouldn't there be a link in > the help file or something?
No, it means that the internal structure is regarded as private and should only be accessed via the methods provided (try methods(class="loess")). You can find out more by reading the source code, but don't expect the authors not to change the structure at any time. -- 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-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
