[Roxygen-devel] Status of R5 support

[Rob Tirrell]

Based on this discussion, as well as the parallel one on S4, what is the way
forward? Do any of the core roxygen team foresee working on this in the near
future? I, for one, would be very excited to see S4/reference classes
supported more fully. I'd be than willing to help out in some degree, but at
this point it's not completely clear to me what the next steps are.

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Program in Biomedical Informatics | Butte Lab | Stanford University



On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 17:30, Peter Danenberg <pcd at roxygen.org> wrote:

> > How far along are you in supporting S4?
>
> Roxygen has basic support for setClass, setGeneric, setMethod; which
> Manuel Eugster extended in the Rd2 roclet. I was hoping to canvas the
> list, actually, to determine what's missing.
>
> According to Peter Haverty, there's at least one bug where:
>
>  It wants to do:
>
>    \S4method{"foo<-"}{bar,character,ANY}(x, i, value)
>
>  when it should do:
>
>    \S4method{"foo"}{bar,character,ANY}(x, i) <- value
>
> > . . . and how much work would be needed to extend that to Reference
> > Classes (a significant amount, I'd imagine)?
>
> Good question: recognizing the use of `setRefClass' will be trivial;
> the main work would involve parsing the `fields' and `methods'
> parameters.
>
> The amount of work is directly proportional to how deeply we want to
> inspect the reference classes for automatically documentable
> information.
>
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