Actually, help.search("for") finds Control(base) Control Flow
which is exactly where 'for' is documented. In general, if you want the manual page of reserved words, then you'll have to quote them: ?"for" Gabor On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 3:39 PM, stephen sefick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ?for doesn't return anything help.search("for") doesn't return anything- > Is the for loop so prevelant in computer programing that the > documentation is implicit or is R paradigm to discourage the use of > the for loop. > [...] -- Gabor Csardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> UNIL DGM ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list 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.