[inlinedocs] A bug and a suggestion for S3 methods support

[Keith Ponting]

The main issue is detecting whether a given function is an S3 method. Is
x.y an instance of method x for class y or just a function which happens
to be called x.y? I have some ideas as to how this could be done -
essentially look for a method x and examine its contents - but I would
rather find something more reliable and ideally supported by the core R
packages. However I am rather tied up at present, so it may be a few
weeks before I can spend much time on this...

Keith

Keith Ponting
Aurix Ltd, Malvern WR14 3SZ  UK
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> Subject: Re: [inlinedocs] A bug and a suggestion for S3 methods
support
> 
> Hi, thanks for the helpful comments, and I'm glad to hear you like
using
> inlinedocs.
> 
> I was not able to reproduce the exact same error you had, but I see
what
> was happening, and I think I fixed it. The bugfix has been checked in
to
> SVN, rev 102, if you'd like to test it and make sure it works on your
> end.
> 
> Thanks for the insightful point about S3 methods. We have talked about
> generating proper \method markup for S3 methods on the list before,
but
> I haven't got around to it yet since it doesn't generate a warning in
R
> CMD check. Keith wrote some support for setMethodS3() definitions, but
I
> don't really use it, so maybe Keith would have a better idea of if it
> would be feasible anytime soon. It would be nice if we could
> automatically detect methods and avoid having to write something like
> ##<<method<<print<<object. In any case, if you manage to write some
code
> (maybe a new parser function?) that makes correct
> S3 method markup for the usage section, please tell us about it.
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