From Bernhard_Pfaff at fra.invesco.com  Wed Nov 22 14:51:32 2006
From: Bernhard_Pfaff at fra.invesco.com (Pfaff, Bernhard Dr.)
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 13:51:32 -0000
Subject: [Rd] Undocumented S4 methods: generic 'show'
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0611221311120.5631@gannet.stats.ox.ac.uk>
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>On Wed, 22 Nov 2006, Pfaff, Bernhard Dr. wrote:
>>
>> \alias{show, equation-method}
>
>There are no spaces in the examples in Writing R Extensions, 
>so I would 
>not have assumed they are allowed.  Does it work without the 
>space?  (If 
>it supposed to, we need to document that.)


Dear Prof. Ripley, Dear Kurt,

many thanks for your swift replies. Yes, after dropping the space in the
\alias{} everything works fine.
Apologies for not having read the documentation carefully enough and
indeed in section 2.1.3 it is stated:

"generic,signature_list-method"

furthermore, in the following paragraph it is clearly written:

"...where signature list contains the names of the classes in the
signature of the method (without
quotes) separated by ',' (without whitespace),..."

Hence, the fine manual is pretty explicit about whitespaces (which I
have not compared carefully enough with my ill-footed \alias{}
directive).

Best,
Bernhard
>
>-- 
>Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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[Rd] Undocumented S4 methods: generic 'show'
Pfaff, Bernhard Dr.