[Roxygen-devel] Status of R5 support

[Rob Tirrell]

Ahhh, okay, I've been somewhat confused on what they were called. :)

Peter - how far along are you in supporting S4, and how much work would be
needed to extend that to Reference Classes (a significant amount, I'd
imagine)? Is that work reflected in the repository on r-forge?


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On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 12:50, Peter Danenberg <pcd at roxygen.org> wrote:

> I'm currently working with Michael Lawrence and Nicholas Lewin-Koh at
> Genentech to shore up S4 support; there was some talk of reference
> classes, too.
>
> If you take a look at Rd.R and Rd2.R, you'll notice some calls to
> `register.srcref.parser'; that's where the nitty-gritty might take
> place for parsing calls to, say, `setRefClass'.
>
> > R5 was a joke, and previously was a test project that was abandoned by
> > R-Core
> >
> > I presume you mean Reference Classes.
> >
> > John Chambers has indicated a preference that the full name 'Reference
> > Classes' be used.
> >
> > I too would like to see support for this in roxygen.  Perhaps one of the
> > roxygen developers could give us a hint about where in the code would
> need
> > to be modified to add new keywords.
> >
> > On 03/05/2011 03:53 AM, Rob Tirrell wrote:
> >> Hi - I was wondering what stage R5 support is at? I have a package I've
> >> been documenting along the way using Roxygen, I'd like to release it
> >> soon. At the same time, I'm trying to avoid writing Rd by hand.
> >>
> >> Thanks!
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