From h.wickham at gmail.com  Tue Sep 19 15:27:12 2006
From: h.wickham at gmail.com (hadley wickham)
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 08:27:12 -0500
Subject: [Rd] Help for methods
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> I do not follow this. When I type ?summary.data.frame I get a
> summary help page where I can also find info about S3 method for class
> 'data.frame'. If I am not wrong it is
>
> \alias{summary.data.frame}
>
> that takes care of this.

Oops, summary.data.frame was a bad example, except perhaps to
illustrate how easy it is not to notice when you have found the
correct documentation.  summary.lm is a better one.

Hadley




[Rd] Help for methods
hadley wickham