plot.function documentation/export?

Now I see the difference: I was using R-devel and that worked as you
expected.

Best,
Uwe Ligges

On 25.07.2011 19:01, Ben Bolker wrote:
On 07/25/2011 12:55 PM, Uwe Ligges wrote:

On 25.07.2011 17:45, Ben Bolker wrote:

    I recently suggested to someone (
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6789055/r-inconsistency-why-add-t-sometimes-works-and-sometimes-not-in-the-plot-functi/6789098#6789098


) that the should use methods("plot") or methods(class="function") to
locate the documentation on the plot method for objects of class
"function", but they pointed out that these don't actually work.

    I can't figure out why not: src/library/graphics/man/curve.Rd
contains
the line

\method{plot}{function}(x, y = 0, to = 1, from = y, xlim = NULL, ylab =
NULL, \dots)

and src/library/graphics/DESCRIPTION contains

you mean the following line is in NAMESPACE rather than DESCRIPTION.

S3method(plot, "function")

   Yes, sorry.

   [presumably the extra quotes are in there because function is a
reserved word?]

   I'm not sure where else the information should be.  Searching
around in
the code tree for information on tail.function (which is listed in the
methods:

methods(class="function")

[1] as.list.function head.function*   print.function   tail.function*

I find the same S3method syntax, so I guess the quotation marks aren't
the problem ...

?tail.function

tells us this one is from package "utils" and you can search for this
function in the sources of the utils package

Or you could ask for

getAnywhere("tail.function")

and R tells you

A single object matching tail.function was found
It was found in the following places
   registered S3 method for tail from namespace utils
   namespace:utils
[.....]

Best wishes,
Uwe

   Sorry, I didn't frame my question very clearly.  I can find
"tail.function" just fine, or I could if I wanted to.   What I don't
know is why methods("plot") and methods(class="function") don't list
"plot.function" even though its documentation and setup seem to be
similar to "tail.function", which *does* show up in
methods(class="function") ...

   cheers
     Ben Bolker


=========

   No plot.function listing in either of these ...

library("graphics")
methods("plot")

  [1] plot.acf*           plot.data.frame*    plot.decomposed.ts*
  [4] plot.default        plot.dendrogram*    plot.density
  [7] plot.ecdf           plot.factor*        plot.formula*
[10] plot.hclust*        plot.histogram*     plot.HoltWinters*
[13] plot.isoreg*        plot.lm             plot.medpolish*
[16] plot.mlm            plot.ppr*           plot.prcomp*
[19] plot.princomp*      plot.profile.nls*   plot.spec
[22] plot.spec.coherency plot.spec.phase     plot.stepfun
[25] plot.stl*           plot.table*         plot.ts
[28] plot.tskernel*      plot.TukeyHSD

    Non-visible functions are asterisked

methods(class="function")

[1] as.list.function head.function*   print.function   tail.function*

    Non-visible functions are asterisked