[R] Discovering methods
Gabor Grothendieck
ggrothendieck at myway.com
Fri Nov 28 22:27:06 CET 2003
How would I discover that + is a method for POSIXct? Applying
methods() to POSIXt and POSIXct does not reveal it.
> methods(class="POSIXt")
[1] as.character.POSIXt cut.POSIXt diff.POSIXt
[4] hist.POSIXt julian.POSIXt months.POSIXt
[7] quarters.POSIXt seq.POSIXt str.POSIXt
[10] weekdays.POSIXt
> methods(class="POSIXct")
[1] [.POSIXct [[.POSIXct [<-.POSIXct
[4] all.equal.POSIXct as.data.frame.POSIXct c.POSIXct
[7] format.POSIXct mean.POSIXct plot.POSIXct
[10] print.POSIXct rep.POSIXct summary.POSIXct
Applying methods() to "+" does give it but, in general, this
would not be a feasible way to discover it since it would be
tantamount to trying everything possible:
> methods("+")
[1] +.POSIXt
Is there some other way?
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