[R] Discovering methods

[Duncan Murdoch]

On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 20:55:49 -0500 (EST), you wrote:

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>Thanks.  I guess we have to be content to approximate this via:
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>   apropos("POSIXt$|POSIXct$")
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>although this supposes we know that POSIXct inherits from POSIXt
>and its not clear that there is a reliable way to discover that
>for S3 classes.
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I don't think there's a concept of inheritance of classes in S3.
That's one of the advantages of S4.

Duncan Murdoch