[Rd] Help for methods
hadley wickham
h.wickham at gmail.com
Sat Sep 30 17:13:36 CEST 2006
> See the .helpForCall function in utils. It would recognize that the
> function was an S4 generic, and then work out the signature and look for
> matching help. I think working out the signature in the case above
> would require it to call lm(...). So there's a precedent for what I
> called a "huge mistake": maybe it's not so huge...
And I'd imagine, in practice, most people would be doing something like
x<- ...
?summary(x)
so that wouldn't have to do an extra computation.
Hadley
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