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Unknown S4 generic function name

Reports declaration S4 methods, which generic functions are not found across Project and Library files

Locating this inspection

By ID

Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.

RUnknownS4GenericInspection
Via Settings dialog

Path to the inspection settings via IntelliJ Platform IDE Settings dialog, when you need to adjust inspection settings directly from your IDE.

Settings or Preferences | Editor | Inspections | R

Inspection ID: RUnknownS4GenericInspection

Suppressing Inspection

You can suppress this inspection by placing the following comment marker before the code fragment where you no longer want messages from this inspection to appear:

//noinspection RUnknownS4GenericInspection

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

Inspection Details

By default bundled with:

DataSpell 2025.2,

Can be installed with plugin:

R Language, 252.26661.0

Last modified: 18 September 2025