From murdoch@stats.uwo.ca  Tue May  7 20:33:02 2002
From: murdoch@stats.uwo.ca (Duncan Murdoch)
Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 15:33:02 -0400
Subject: [Rd] Generic/method consistency in print and summary
Message-ID: <pqagdusnjm16vlm3k40smfnlaok013e04m@4ax.com>

In R 1.5.0 (and earlier):

 > print
 function (x, ...) 
 UseMethod("print")
 > summary
 function (object, ...) 
 UseMethod("summary")

Is there a reason for this inconsistency in the name of the object?
It makes a single help file for both functions look ugly, because it
has to document both "x" and "object", which are really the same
thing.

Duncan Murdoch

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[Rd] Generic/method consistency in print and summary
Duncan Murdoch