[Rd] Help for methods
    hadley wickham 
    h.wickham at gmail.com
       
    Sat Sep 30 17:13:36 CEST 2006
    
    
  
> See the .helpForCall function in utils.  It would recognize that the
> function was an S4 generic, and then work out the signature and look for
> matching help.  I think working out the signature in the case above
> would require it to call lm(...).  So there's a precedent for what I
> called a "huge mistake":  maybe it's not so huge...
And I'd imagine, in practice, most people would be doing something like
x<- ...
?summary(x)
so that wouldn't have to do an extra computation.
Hadley
    
    
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