Um, tried help(.Rprofile) lately? -pd
> On 17 Apr 2017, at 00:08 , Rolf Turner <r.tur...@auckland.ac.nz> wrote: > > > On 17/04/17 08:46, John C Frain wrote: > >> Bruce >> >> The official documentation for these startup files can be obtained with >> the command >> >> Help(Startup) > > > Minor point of order, Mr. Chairman. That should be: > > help(Startup) > > There is (as far as I know) no such function as "Help()". It is important to > remember that R is case sensitive. > > Another point that is worthy of thought is "How in God's name would any > beginner know or find out about the usage help(Startup)?" Unless they were > explicitly told about it, in the manner which you just demonstrated. The > usage gets a mention in "An Introduction to R" --- but I had to search for it. > > To me the word "startup" is not terribly intuitive. I would tend to search > for "starting" rather than "startup", I think, but I'm not sure what the > average beginner would search for. A search of "An Introduction to R" for > "starting" gets seven or eight hits, one of which is relevant. So it all > takes patience and persistence. > > Also note that "An Introduction to R" mostly uses the word "startup" (lower > case "s") and only uses "Startup" twice. Note also that > > help(startup) > > fails. You have to get that initial "S" right. > > This isn't a criticism of the documentation. I'm just pointing out that > there are problems, mostly insoluble. Until some clever Johnny gets on with > developing that mind_read() function referred to in fortune(182). > > cheers, > > Rolf Turner > > -- > Technical Editor ANZJS > Department of Statistics > University of Auckland > Phone: +64-9-373-7599 ext. 88276 > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- Peter Dalgaard, Professor, Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Office: A 4.23 Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
