[Rd] plot.function documentation/export?
Ben Bolker
bbolker at gmail.com
Mon Jul 25 19:01:59 CEST 2011
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On 07/25/2011 12:55 PM, Uwe Ligges wrote:
>
>
> On 25.07.2011 17:45, Ben Bolker wrote:
>
> I recently suggested to someone (
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6789055/r-inconsistency-why-add-t-sometimes-works-and-sometimes-not-in-the-plot-functi/6789098#6789098
>
> ) that the should use methods("plot") or methods(class="function") to
> locate the documentation on the plot method for objects of class
> "function", but they pointed out that these don't actually work.
>
> I can't figure out why not: src/library/graphics/man/curve.Rd contains
> the line
>
> \method{plot}{function}(x, y = 0, to = 1, from = y, xlim = NULL, ylab =
> NULL, \dots)
>
> and src/library/graphics/DESCRIPTION contains
>
>
>> you mean the following line is in NAMESPACE rather than DESCRIPTION.
>
> S3method(plot, "function")
Yes, sorry.
>
>
> [presumably the extra quotes are in there because function is a
> reserved word?]
>
> I'm not sure where else the information should be. Searching around in
> the code tree for information on tail.function (which is listed in the
> methods:
>
>>>> methods(class="function")
> [1] as.list.function head.function* print.function tail.function*
>
> I find the same S3method syntax, so I guess the quotation marks aren't
> the problem ...
>
>> ?tail.function
>
>> tells us this one is from package "utils" and you can search for this
>> function in the sources of the utils package
>
>> Or you could ask for
>
> getAnywhere("tail.function")
>
>> and R tells you
>
>> A single object matching tail.function was found
>> It was found in the following places
>> registered S3 method for tail from namespace utils
>> namespace:utils
>> [.....]
>
>> Best wishes,
>> Uwe
>
>
>
Sorry, I didn't frame my question very clearly. I can find
"tail.function" just fine, or I could if I wanted to. What I don't
know is why methods("plot") and methods(class="function") don't list
"plot.function" even though its documentation and setup seem to be
similar to "tail.function", which *does* show up in
methods(class="function") ...
cheers
Ben Bolker
=========
No plot.function listing in either of these ...
> library("graphics")
> methods("plot")
[1] plot.acf* plot.data.frame* plot.decomposed.ts*
[4] plot.default plot.dendrogram* plot.density
[7] plot.ecdf plot.factor* plot.formula*
[10] plot.hclust* plot.histogram* plot.HoltWinters*
[13] plot.isoreg* plot.lm plot.medpolish*
[16] plot.mlm plot.ppr* plot.prcomp*
[19] plot.princomp* plot.profile.nls* plot.spec
[22] plot.spec.coherency plot.spec.phase plot.stepfun
[25] plot.stl* plot.table* plot.ts
[28] plot.tskernel* plot.TukeyHSD
Non-visible functions are asterisked
> methods(class="function")
[1] as.list.function head.function* print.function tail.function*
Non-visible functions are asterisked
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