In your example, it would be:
getMethod("Table", "GEOData")
You may also be interested in how to get the help documentation for S4 methods, which has an equally unusual invocation required:
method?Table("GEOData")
Generally, with S4, you will need
- the function name
- the class (signature) of objects it is for
If you are lost as to the latter:
class(object)
will return the class, and you can also do:
showMethods("Table")
to show all currently available methods. Alternatively, I find I often use:
findMethods("Table")
and the reason is the findMethods returns a list of all the methods for a particular function. Classes can have long names and I find I mistype/miscapitalize them often so as a quick hack, findMethods("functionname") is handy. Of course, it can also bite you for generic functions with many methods as the printed list may be quite long.
