extract.file.parse: File content analysis
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Description Usage Arguments Details Value Author(s)

Using the base parse function, analyse the file to link preceding "prefix" comments to each active chunk. Those comments form the default description for that chunk. The analysis also looks for S4 class "setClass" ,R.oo setConstructorS3 R.methodsS3::setMethodS3 or S4 setMethod calls in order to link the documentation of those properly.

1	extract.file.parse(code, env)

`code`	Lines of R source code in a character vector - note that any nested `source` statements are ignored when scanning for class definitions.
`env`	the environment in which the code has been evaluated before. This is e.g. iportant to make sure that we can evaluate expressions like signature definitions for methods

If the definition chunk does not contain a description, any immediately preceding sequence consecutive "prefix" lines will be used instead.

Class and method definitions can take several forms, determined by expression type:

assignment (<-): Ordinary assignment of value/function;
setClass: Definition of S4 class;
setMethod: Definition of a method of a S4 generic;
setConstructorS3: Definition of S3 class using R.oo package;
R.methodsS3::setMethodS3: Definition of method for S3 class using R.oo package.

Additionally, the value may be a name of a function defined elsewhere, in which case the documentation should be copied from that other definition. This is handled using the concept of documentation links.

The R.methodsS3::setMethodS3 calls introduce additional complexity: they will define an additional S3 generic (which needs documentation to avoid warnings at package build time) unless one already exists. This also is handled by "linking" documentation. A previously unseen S3generic is linked to the first defining instances, subsequent definitions of that S3generic also link back to the first defining instance.

Returns an invisible list of .DocLink objects.

Toby Dylan Hocking <toby@sg.cs.titech.ac.jp> [aut, cre], Keith Ponting [aut], Thomas Wutzler [aut], Philippe Grosjean [aut], Markus Müller [aut], R Core Team [ctb, cph]

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