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Undocumented S4 methods: generic coerce and siglist matrix, Massvector

2 messages · Wolski, John Chambers

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Hi,
While checking the package I am getting all the time the following 
complain about the function:


Undocumented S4 methods:
  generic coerce and siglist matrix,Massvector


I have not defined the function nowhere in the R files.
My gues is that this has something to do with the following definition 
of the setAs function.

setAs("matrix","Massvector"
      ,def= function(from)
      {
        return(new("Massvector",from))
      }
      )

The problem is not to cheat the check mechanism. I knew that the warning 
can be elminitad by by defining an alias of this function in one of the 
Rd files.

Yours

Eryk
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Witold Eryk Wolski wrote:
It certainly does.  From the documentation of setAs():

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With this explanation as background, the function setAs does a fairly 
obvious computation: It constructs and sets a method for the function 
coerce with signature c(from, to), using the def argument to define the 
body of the method.
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No cheating seems needed.  The setAs() call is part of your software & 
presumably you document it somewhere.  You do have to construct the 
corresponding alias in the same .Rd file, but it doesn't amount to cheating.

It's true that a user would have to be unusually well-informed to know 
how to ask for the corresponding documentation explicitly.