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[Bioc-devel] cigarToRleList fails

Hi Jesper,
On 02/20/2014 02:13 PM, Jesper G?din wrote:
Yeah, this has been a source of frustration for many people. And
always a source of embarrassment (for us) when teaching our software
to beginners.

I've started to change this. In the upcoming version of BioC (2.14,
scheduled for mid-April), when you'll do ?coverage, you'll get to
choose between the 3 man pages that document coverage methods (there
is one in IRanges, one in GenomicRanges, and one in GenomicAlignments).

I want to generalize this to other generics that have methods spread
across several packages (e.g. findOverlaps, the intra- and inter-range
methods, etc...).

Having to choose between several man pages every time you do e.g.
?findOverlaps is a minor annoyance compared to not being able to
find the man page at all. (Note that if you already know where is
your favorite man page, you'll be able to direct access it with
e.g. ?GenomicRanges::findOverlaps). Nobody will ever need to use
the insane ?`findOverlaps,GenomicRanges,GenomicRanges-method` to
open that man page again. Ever! (it will still work though...)

Cheers,
H.