[Rd] promptClass("numeric")

Deepayan Sarkar deepayan at stat.wisc.edu
Mon Aug 16 16:27:47 CEST 2004


On Monday 16 August 2004 08:54, Wolski wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Have written some functions with signature "numeric".
>
> eg.
> setGeneric("foo",
>  function(object,...)
>                standardGeneric("foo"))
> setMethod("foo",signature(object="numeric"),def = ....
>
> To generate the Rd file sceleton i use
>
> > promtClass("numeric")
>
> A shell of class documentation has been written to the
> file 'numeric-class.Rd'.
>
>
> but the file does contains just.
>
> \section{Methods}{
>   \describe{
>     \item{coerce}{\code{signature(from = "ANY", to = "numeric")}: ...
> } }
> }
>
> Were is my method "foo"?

Why do you expect it to be there? If you want documentation for method 
definitions of foo, use promptMethods("foo"); this is indicated 
in ?promptClass:

See Also:

     'prompt' for documentation of functions, 'promptMethods' for
     documentation of method definitions.

Hth,

Deepayan



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