[Roxygen-devel] roxygen2: tag @aliases for S4 method generates quoted aliases

[Renaud Gaujoux]

Hi,

adding a tag such as:

@aliases myS4method,matrix-method

generates the following Rd quoted tag:
\alias{"myS4method,matrix-method"}

this makes R CMD check report the alias as missing.
There is not such issue with non S4 aliases.

The issue might come from the presence of the comma in the alias, 
although this is the correct syntax to declare S4 aliases.

By the way is there a reason why the aliases are not generated 
automatically, since one knows exactly which doc to put in which file, 
as well as the type and signatures of the documented object.
For example, when documenting a S4 generic, the aliases to the different 
methods could be put together in the same Rd file, as it is already done 
for the descriptions for the different methods.

Thank you.
Renaud


 

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