Thank you for the clarifications Duncan.
Marc
On 04/05/2011 11:15 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
On 05/04/2011 1:51 PM, Marc Carlson wrote:
Hi,
I have seen several packages that with the most recent version of R are
giving a warning like this:
Assignments in \usage in documentation object 'marginalData-methods':
marginalData(object) = value
I assume that this is to prevent people from making assignments in their
usage statements (which seems completely understandable). But what
about the case above? This is a person who just wants to show the
proper usage for a replacement method. IOW they just want to write
something that looks like what you actually do when you use a
replacement method. They just want to show users how to do something
like this:
replacementMethod(object)<- newValue
So is that really something that should not be allowed in a usage
statement?
If replacementMethod was a replacement function, then
replacementMethod(object)<- newValue
is supposed to be fine. But if it is an S3 method, it should be
\method{replacementMethod}{class}(object)<- newValue
and if it is an S4 method I think it should be
\S4method{replacementMethod}{signature_list}(object)<- newValue
(though the manual suggests using the S3 style, I'm not sure how
literally to take it).
Duncan Murdoch
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