From murdoch at stats.uwo.ca  Tue Dec 19 03:40:58 2006
From: murdoch at stats.uwo.ca (Duncan Murdoch)
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 21:40:58 -0500
Subject: [Rd] help search mechanism for ?"$"
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References: <4586F37A.6060307@telenet.be>
Message-ID: <4587513A.4080700@stats.uwo.ca>

On 12/18/2006 3:00 PM, Tobias Verbeke wrote:
> I'm sure this is completely harmless, but
> by accident I discovered that
> 
> ?nomatterwhat$""
> 
> fires up
> 
> ?"$"

In general, ?fn(args) gets you help for fn, or if fn is a generic, the 
fn method that's appropriate for the given list of args.  This looks 
like an example of that, since x$y is parsed as a function call to the $ 
function.

Duncan Murdoch



[Rd] help search mechanism for ?"$"
Duncan Murdoch