On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Remington, Richard wrote: > # Why does expressing one function > > require(ctest) > t.test > > # return only > > function (x, ...) > UseMethod("t.test") > <environment: namespace:ctest> > > # but expressing another function > > shapiro.test > > # returns more complete code? [...]
False hypothesis: both are the complete code. You are not understanding (S3-style) generic functions: see any good book on R/S. (`An Introduction to R' is based on notes that predate them, but they are covered in more detail in the draft R Language manual. `The reader is referred to the official references for a complete discussion of this mechanism.' which I think means Chambers & Hastie, 1992,) -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help