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

[Hadley Wickham]

> 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.

This would be the preferred solution, but none of the roxygen
developers are particularly fluent in S4.  If you could provide a set
of test cases, we could explore how to generate the correct aliases
automatically.

Hadley

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