[BioC] how to see the content of a bioconductor function?

[James W. MacDonald]

Actually, according to the S4 gurus, the correct method is

showMethods(xval, includeDefs=TRUE)

The getMethods() function is primarily designed for programmatic access 
to the methods.

It is often useful to add the 'classes' argument to only get the method 
you are interested in.

Best,

Jim

Benjamin Otto wrote:
> Hi Carol,
> 
> Try 
> 
>> getMethods(xval) 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Benjamin
> 
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> [mailto:bioconductor-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] Im Auftrag von carol white
> Gesendet: Thursday, July 05, 2007 1:20 PM
> An: Holger Schwender; James Anderson
> Cc: bioconductor at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Betreff: Re: [BioC] how to see the content of a bioconductor function?
> 
> Hi all,
> How is it possible to see the content of xval function?
> 
> 
>> xval
> standardGeneric for "xval" defined from package "MLInterfaces"
> 
> function (data, classLab, proc, xvalMethod, group, indFun, niter,
>     fsFun = NULL, fsNum = NULL, decreasing = TRUE, cluster = NULL,
>     ...)
> standardGeneric("xval")
> <environment: 0xa419950>
> Methods may be defined for arguments: data, classLab, proc, xvalMethod,
> group, indFun, niter, fsFun, fsNum, decreasing, cluster
> 
> look forward to your reply
> 
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