WISH: ? enhancements - Githubissues

HenrikBengtsson / Wishlist-for-R

Features and tweaks to R that I and others would love to see - feel free to add yours!

https://github.com/HenrikBengtsson/Wishlist-for-R/issues

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WISH: ? enhancements #76

Open hadley opened 6 years ago

hadley commented 6 years ago

It would be nice if x$y went somewhere useful for R6/ReferenceClasses
It would be nice if generic(foo) worked in the same way for S3 that it does for S4
It would be nice if ? on a re-exported function went directly to the help for the original function
It would be nice if the conflicted package could also somehow register "wins" for one documentation alias over another

klmr commented 6 years ago

It would be nice if x$y went somewhere useful for R6/ReferenceClasses

Since R6 is implemented in a package, such an operator ? could be provided by that package. klmr/modules already does something similar (badly, at the moment; hopefully better once 1.0 is released).

gaborcsardi commented 6 years ago

@klmr it is just better to have some mechanism to provide these hooks, otherwise there will be three operators, and none of them will work for all three types of objects.