It uses the appropriate method for the generic function predict().
In your case it is predict.ar(), and you can examine it by
> getS3method("predict", "ar")
On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, ATHANASIA KAMARIOTIS wrote:
> Can you please tell me how R computes : " predict(ar.x)$pred "
> in :
>
> #let x be a vector
>
> ar.x<-ar(x)
> predict(ar.x)$pred
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