From jfox at mcmaster.ca  Mon May 21 20:07:10 2007
From: jfox at mcmaster.ca (John Fox)
Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 14:07:10 -0400
Subject: [Rd] section needed in FAQ - Using R (PR#9698)
In-Reply-To: <2D96879A-5B1A-48B2-B2F2-DCE37132B854@ganymede.org>
Message-ID: <20070521180709.RBBY13710.tomts25-srv.bellnexxia.net@JohnDesktop8300>

Dear,

My spelling correction was poorly phrased, since there are actually two p's
in "apropos," but there aren't two adjacent p's.

I agree that a reference to apropos on the help page for help is a good
idea.

Regards,
 John

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Department of Sociology
McMaster University
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ray Kiddy [mailto:ray at ganymede.org] 
> Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 1:57 PM
> To: John Fox
> Cc: 'Peter Dalgaard'; r-devel at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [Rd] section needed in FAQ - Using R (PR#9698)
> 
> 
> On May 21, 2007, at 5:59 AM, John Fox wrote:
> 
> > Dear Peter and Ray,
> >
> > I think that Ray's problem finding apropos is that 
> "apropos" has one 
> > "p."
> > Interestingly, help.search("appropos") (as suggested by 
> Peter) is able 
> > to accommodate the spelling error.
> >
> > Regards,
> >  John
> >
> > --------------------------------
> > John Fox, Professor
> 
> Thanks for your information. I see I was spelling it wrong.
> 
> Can I make the suggestion that if one does "help(help)", 
> which I tried, that the page should mention "apropos". 
> Perhaps in the "See Also" section.
> 
> This was a mistake on my part, but documentation can be 
> helpful in response to user mistakes, rather than fragile.
> 
> thanx - ray
> 
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: r-devel-bounces at r-project.org
> >> [mailto:r-devel-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Peter Dalgaard
> >> Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 3:15 AM
> >> To: ray at ganymede.org
> >> Cc: R-bugs at biostat.ku.dk; r-devel at stat.math.ethz.ch
> >> Subject: Re: [Rd] section needed in FAQ - Using R (PR#9698)
> >>
> >> ray at ganymede.org wrote:
> >>> By the way, the R program itself is really badly in need of an 
> >>> "appropos()" to go alongside "help()". Perhaps "help()" can
> >> be renamed
> >>> to "hunt()" or "huntAndPeck()".
> >>>
> >>>
> >> help.search("appropos")
> >>
> >> -- 
> >>    O__  ---- Peter Dalgaard             ?ster Farimagsgade 
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> >
> >
> >
> 
>



[Rd] section needed in FAQ - Using R (PR#9698)
John Fox