From ray at ganymede.org  Mon May 21 19:56:55 2007
From: ray at ganymede.org (Ray Kiddy)
Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 10:56:55 -0700
Subject: [Rd] section needed in FAQ - Using R (PR#9698)
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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")
>>
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[Rd] section needed in FAQ - Using R (PR#9698)
Ray Kiddy