[Rd] getAnywhere (PR#4275)

[maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch]

>>>>> "Mark" == Mark Bravington <Mark.Bravington at csiro.au>
>>>>>     on Wed, 24 Sep 2003 10:06:49 +0200 (MET DST) writes:

    Mark> 'getAnywhere' is not reporting methods when there are
    Mark> periods in the class name or the generic name (in R-devel).

    >> getAnywhere( 'predict.loess')
    Mark> A single object matching 'predict.loess' was found
    Mark> It was found in the following places
    Mark> registered S3 method for predict from namespace modreg
    Mark> namespace:modreg
    Mark> with value
    Mark> <<...>>

    >> getAnywhere( 'predict.smooth.spline.fit')
    Mark> A single object matching 'predict.smooth.spline.fit' was found
    Mark> It was found in the following places
    Mark> namespace:modreg
    Mark> with value
    Mark> <<...>>

    Mark> In the second case, the report doesn't state that
    Mark> 'predict.smooth.spline.fit' is a registered method.

    Mark> Also e.g.

    >> getAnywhere( 'as.dendrogram.hclust')

    Mark> doesn't report that this is a registered method.

    Mark> It looks like the two lines in 'getAnywhere' starting
    Mark> "gen <-" & "cl <- " might want to become:

    Mark> gen <- paste(parts[1:(i - 1)], collapse = ".")
    Mark> cl <- paste(parts[ i:length(parts)], collapse = ".")


Exactly!
Thank you, Mark, for the report and the proposed patch.

It is currently running the tests will most probably be
committed before tomorrows beta snapshot.

Martin Maechler

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    Mark> --please do not edit the information below--

    Mark> Version:
    Mark> platform = i386-pc-mingw32
    Mark> arch = i386
    Mark> os = mingw32
    Mark> system = i386, mingw32
    Mark> status = alpha
    Mark> major = 1
    Mark> minor = 8.0
    Mark> year = 2003
    Mark> month = 09
    Mark> day = 22
    Mark> language = R