[Rd] Why do methods of "initialize" have no "srcref" attribute as other S4 mehtods?

For documentation we use a system that generates Rd files from special comments in the code. (inlinedocs). It is crucial to be able to get the defining source code for objects like methods to extract the comments from it. Here is an R session that shows how this works for several kinds of methods

Re: [Rd] Why do methods of "initialize" have no "srcref" attribute as other S4 mehtods?

Thank You very much. This is a great help. I would never ever have thought of either unRematchDefinition or getSrcref. I will incorporate this new insight and report about any further discoveries (or problems leading to them ;-)) Thanks again Markus 2014/1/8 Duncan Murdoch > On 14-01-07 2:40 P

[Rd] Which functions are there to parse a NAMESPACE file (without installing the package)

For the purpose of automatic documentation, I want to parse a NAMESPACE file of the package to be documented. I want to know the contents: exportedClasses , exportedMethods and so on to be able to hide the part of the documentation not exposed in the NAMESPACE file. Up to now I am parsing the fi

Re: [Rd] Which functions are there to parse a NAMESPACE file (without installing the package)

Cool It works ;-) Thanks a lot. 2014/1/21 Peter Meilstrup > Try the function parseNamespaceFile in base. Not documented but its > output should be understandable. > > Peter > > On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 5:41 AM, Markus Müller > wrote: > > For the purpose of automatic documentation, I want to pa