methods
List Methods of an S3 or S4 Generic Function

### Description

Returns the method names for either an S3 or S4 generic function name or class name.

### Usage

    methods(generic.function, class)
    .S3methods(generic.function, class, envir=parent.frame())

### Arguments

generic.function | the name of a generic function.
class | the name of a class.
envir | an environment to use when searching for a generic function object.

### Details

Exactly one of the arguments generic.function or class must be supplied.
Use showMethods to find more information on the methods of an S4 generic function.
An S3 method is a function with the name of the form <generic>.<class>. It is called when <generic>(object) is called, and when class(object)==<class>. For example, the function print.lm is called to print objects whose class is "lm".
This function finds for all functions with names of this form.
Value

- methods returns a character vector of the names for all S3 or S4 methods for the given generic function or class.
- .S3methods returns only the names of S3 methods.

The attributes of this value contain more information about the locations of the methods.
See Also
showMethods.
Examples

    methods("coef")
    methods(class="factor")
    .S3methods("print")

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