When R help simply states something like:
Value:
An object of class '"loess"'.
How do I find out more about that class? Shouldn't there be a link in
the help file or something?
ATB
Mick
apropos("loess")
help.search("loess")
methods(class = "loess")
class?loess # in this case it does not return anything but sometimes it does
RiteSearch("loess")
On 10/17/06, michael watson (IAH-C) <michael.watson at bbsrc.ac.uk>
wrote:> When R help simply states something like:
>
> Value:
>
> An object of class '"loess"'.
>
> How do I find out more about that class? Shouldn't there be a link in
> the help file or something?
>
> ATB
> Mick
>
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On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, michael watson (IAH-C) wrote:> When R help simply states something like: > > Value: > > An object of class '"loess"'. > > How do I find out more about that class? Shouldn't there be a link in > the help file or something?No, it means that the internal structure is regarded as private and should only be accessed via the methods provided (try methods(class="loess")). You can find out more by reading the source code, but don't expect the authors not to change the structure at any time. -- Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk 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