On Jan 17, 2013, at 7:00 PM, John Sorkin wrote:
Rolf
Perhaps the philosophy of the help system needs to change . . .
John
It's probably unwise to accept any one person's claim regarding the
"philosophy of the help system". If you have the time, energy and
skills to construct a help page for "..." then I would inquire on the
r-devel mailing list whether such a submission would be considered.
After looking at the help page for "+" I think it needs at the very
least a reference to both the ?"formula" page (since that is a core
part of hte language) and alos suggest it should describe the
overloadings of "+" in the lattice and ggplot2 packages. I think it's
too much to expect users to know that "is an S4 generic" implies a
wide variety of potential meanings. I think those oft-used examples of
such meanings ought to be mentioned.
--
David.
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On Jan 17, 2013, at 7:11 PM, "Rolf Turner <rolf.tur...@xtra.co.nz>" <rolf.tur...@xtra.co.nz
> wrote:
The "help" facility is applicable to functions and data sets. It
is not
designed
or intended to give "help" with respect to R syntax (with the
exception of
the basic syntax of the operators --- unary and binary --- and the
associated
rules of precedence).
cheers,
Rolf Turner
On 01/18/2013 09:17 AM, Steve Taylor wrote:
The ellipsis object is not listed in the base help pages!
help(`+`) # this works - help on arithmetic operators
help("+") # also works
help(`...`) # fails with Error: '...' used in an incorrect context
help("...") # fails also with No documentation for '...' in
specified packages and libraries: you could try '??...'
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Do you know where I can find some documentation about it?
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