[Roxygen-devel] What's missing in S4?

[Hadley Wickham]

My big question would be if you're going to switch from parsing the
source code, to executing it and then evaluating the stored S4
metadata?  It seems like that would be more work, but also more
robust.

Hadley

On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 4:05 AM, Peter Danenberg <pcd at roxygen.org> wrote:
> We're trying to shore up S4 support, and I was wondering whether
> anyone noticed any discrepancies; as I mentioned in an email to Brian
> Peterson, Peter Haverty noticed at least one bug:
>
>  Also, @exportMethod doesn't know how to do usage statement for S4
>  replacement functions.
>
>  It wants to do
>
>    \S4method{"foo<-"}{bar,character,ANY}(x, i, value)
>
>  when it should do
>
>    \S4method{"foo"}{bar,character,ANY}(x, i) <- value
>
>  (At least that's how a post by one of those famous R guys said the
>  usage should look).  R CMD check barfs on the way Roxygen does it.
>
> Is there anything on your TODO list, Manuel, besides general
> architectural things (e.g. better integration)?
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