>>>>> Seth Falcon writes: > Kurt Hornik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>>>>>> Robert Gentleman writes: >> >>> I would also, personally prefer some sort of approximate matching since >>> there are different ways to spell some words, and some folks abbreviate >>> parts of words. >> >> The same design has been employed by help.search for a long time, for >> exactly the same reasons (albeit with slightly different agrep >> defaults).
> I may not have spent enough time adjusting the behavior, but when I > tried agrep for apropos, I found that I almost always got way too many > hits and found the case-insensitive grep the right balance. Have you tried the help.search design? It uses approximate matching only if the match string is long enough (no less than 5 characters, something slightly larger may be useful for apropos()). -k ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
