[Rd] \S4method in combination with "[" and "[<-"

[Matthias Kohl]

Dear Kurt,

I tried your proposal. It also led to

Bad \usage lines found in documentation object 'Subsetting-methods':
  \S4method{[}{SeqDataFrames}(x, i, j, k, drop = FALSE)
  \S4method{[}{SeqDataFrames}(x, i, j, k) <- value

My sessionInfo:

R version 2.7.0 Patched (2008-05-20 r45741)
i686-pc-linux-gnu

locale:
LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=de_DE.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=de_DE.UTF-8;LC_MONETARY=C;LC_MESSAGES=de_DE.UTF-8;LC_PAPER=de_DE.UTF-8;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=de_DE.UTF-8;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base    

Best,
Matthias

Kurt Hornik wrote:
>>>>>> Matthias Kohl writes:
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>> Dear developers,
>> We want to use "\S4method" to document new S4-methods for "[" and "[<-". 
>> We use this for other functions/methods and it works without any 
>> problem, but in case of "[" and "[<-" we didn't manage to bring this to 
>> work.
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>> The problem occurs in the development version of our package "distrSim" 
>> which can be found under http://r-forge.r-project.org/R/?group_id=87.
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>> The warning we obtain is
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>> Bad \usage lines found in documentation object 'Subsetting-methods':
>>   \S4method{[}{SeqDataFrames}(x, i, j, k, drop = FALSE)
>>   \S4method{[<-}{SeqDataFrames}(x, i, j, k, value)
>>     
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>> Of course, we tried several different possibilities but with no
>> success.
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> You should be able to do the same you would do for indicating S3 methods
> for subsetting.  I.e.,
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>   \S4method{[}{SeqDataFrames}(x, i, j, k) <- value
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> If this does not work, it is a bug.  I'll have a look.
>
> -k
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>> Does someone know a package which shows a use case for this situation? I 
>> looked in several packages but could not found any.
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>> Thanks for your help!
>> Matthias
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>> -- 
>> Dr. Matthias Kohl
>> www.stamats.de
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Dr. Matthias Kohl
www.stamats.de