[Rd] declaring nonS3method

[Skye Bender-deMoll]

If Martin's proposal for declaring non-S3 methods in NAMESPACE is
feasible, it would be very helpful.  The packages we support have
multiple examples of unfortunately named functions non-S3 functions, so
creating a route for migrating them into compliance would be great.

best,
   -skye

On 06/12/2015 03:00 AM, r-package-devel-request at r-project.org wrote:
 > Message: 11
 > Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2015 09:55:18 +0200
 > From: Martin Maechler<maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch>
 > To: John Fox<jfox at mcmaster.ca>
 > Cc: Michael Friendly<friendly at yorku.ca>, Sandy Weisberg
 > 	<sandy at umn.edu>,	r-package-devel at r-project.org
 > Subject: Re: [R-pkg-devel] "apparent S3 methods" note in R CMD check
 > Message-ID:<21882.36966.429889.227076 at stat.math.ethz.ch>
 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

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 >  that it would be desirable for the package author to
 > effectively declare the fact that such a function is not an S3
 > method even though it "looks like it" at least if looked from far.
 >
 > So, ideally, you could have something like
 >
 >   nonS3method("all.effects")
 >
 > somewhere in your package source ( in NAMESPACE or R/*.R )
 > which would tell the package-checking code -- but*ALSO*  all the other S3
 > method code that  all.effects should be treated as a regular R
 > function.