Dear all, Why not leave ? more-or-less as it is (at least for ?foo) and add arguments to help() for other kinds of searches? Perhaps the kind of search that help() does by default could be set as an option.
Regards, John ------------------------------ John Fox, Professor Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada web: socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > project.org] On Behalf Of Deepayan Sarkar > Sent: April-25-08 1:54 PM > To: R-devel > Subject: Re: [Rd] RFC: What should ?foo do? > > For what it's worth, I use ?foo mostly to look up usage of functions > that I know I want to use, and find it perfect for that (one benefit > over help() is that completion works for ?). The only thing I miss is > the ability to do the equivalent of help("foo", package = "bar"); > ?bar::foo gives the help page for "::". Perhaps that would be > something to consider for addition. > > -Deepayan > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
