I doubt that it will cure all of the R documentation complaints, but
this R-news article by Ligges answered all on my questions on the
topic of accessing source (see page 43):
www.r-project.org/doc/Rnews/Rnews_2006-4.pdf
I learned to use methods() and then to use the full function names to
which calls got dispatched.
--
David Winsemius
On Apr 18, 2009, at 8:47 PM, Rolf Turner wrote:
On 17/04/2009, at 10:21 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
Benjamin Tyner wrote:
Many thanks Duncan. Perhaps this merits a more explicit note in the
documentation?
The quote I gave is from the documentation. How could it be more
explicit?
This is unfortunately typical of the attitude of R-core people
toward the
documentation. ``It's clear.'' they say. ``It's explicit.'' Clear
and
explicit once you *know* what it's saying. Not before, but.
In this case the documentation is quite opaque to me, and I would
suspect
to a good many like me. Now that you have made it *genuinely*
explicit,
I can understand what the documentation is saying. Prior to that I
wouldn't
have had a prayer of guessing that get() would sometimes find things
that
getAnywhere() would not find.
Moreover, if getAnywhere() does not really mean ``get *anywhere*''
then its
name is misleading. Surely it wouldn't be too tough to modify
getAnywhere()
so that it really got anywhere. E.g. get it to call get() when it
can't
find an object with a given name?
cheers,
Rolf
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