[R] generic function body display

[Martin Morgan]

Hi Alok --

On 03/11/2010 06:59 PM, Alok Jadhav wrote:
> 
> I recently restructured my R project to make use of S4 class objects. I
> converted some of the functions to generic functions. If I type the name of
> the function i can see the body for non generic functions. I am not able to
> retrieve the code for Generic functions. It is very convinient for users to
> use these functions when they can see the function body.
> 
> See the output for generic function "QueryAgora" which is defined for
> classes "jp", "hk", "au", "kr"
> 
> 
>> QueryAgora
> standardGeneric for "QueryAgora" defined from package ".GlobalEnv"
> 
> function (object, sql, ..., uat = FALSE, gen2 = FALSE, as.is = FALSE) 
> standardGeneric("QueryAgora")
> <environment: 0x029b84cc>
> Methods may be defined for arguments: object, sql, uat, gen2, as.is
> Use  showMethods("QueryAgora")  for currently available ones.
> 
> 
>> showMethods("QueryAgora")
> Function: QueryAgora (package .GlobalEnv)
> object="au"
> object="hk"
> object="jp"
> object="kr"

showMethods(QueryAgora, classes="au", includeDef=TRUE)

or

selectMethod(QueryAgora, "au")

Martin

> 
>> showMlist(MethodsList("QueryAgora"))
> <Empty Methods List>
> 
>> showMlist(MethodsList("jp"))
> <Empty Methods List>
> 
> Could someone please tell me how can I explore the function body for the
> above function. Any help will be appreciated.
> 
> 
> Regards, Alok
> 
> 
> 


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