From ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk  Tue Jun  3 19:43:14 2003
From: ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian Ripley)
Date: Tue Jun  3 19:43:31 2003
Subject: [Rd] ?if (PR#3179)
In-Reply-To: <200306031736.h53Hao2b023316@pubhealth.ku.dk>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0306031838530.8601-100000@gannet.stats>

What makes you think that is a bug?

?"if" and help("if") work

`An Introduction to R' says

For a feature specified by special characters, the argument must be
enclosed in double or single quotes, making it a ``character string'':

and that is true for a few other examples, as all good books (e.g. 
MASS) point out.


On Tue, 3 Jun 2003 dominique.couturier@hec.unige.ch wrote:

> hello dear [R] experts,
> 
> I use [R] 1.7.0 on Unix and have noticed that I could'nt load the help 
> of the function "if" with the command
> 
>  >?if
> +
> +
> 
> or the command
> 
>  > help(if)
> Error: syntax error
> 
> I deeply thank you and congratulate you for all your work,
> [R] is a wonderfull programm :-)

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[Rd] ?if (PR#3179)
Prof Brian Ripley