> I think it would be nice to get this back and make it less platform
> specific. It would need indexing of the content of the pages, and
> Javascript or similar to access the indices.
It would be nice to have an interface to something like lucene - would
be useful for other projects apart from R
That did it. Was having trouble searching 'help' for how to optionally
configure 'help'. Thanks.
-Dan
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Henrik Bengtsson wrote:
> For the text based help, there is no search feature on Windows, e.g.
>
> options(help_type="text");
> help(readLines);
>
> but if you us
On 11/11/2009 11:40 AM, hadley wickham wrote:
I understand that no one wanted to maintain the old Help, but one feature I
used extensively -- as a newbie to R or to an unfamiliar package -- was the
capability of searching for a word or phrase on the Help page itself.
Ctrl-F/Command-F (Windows/mac
For the text based help, there is no search feature on Windows, e.g.
options(help_type="text");
help(readLines);
but if you use the HTML-based help, you can use the browser's search
features as suggested/wanted:
options(help_type="html");
help(readLines);
/Henrik
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 5:40
> I understand that no one wanted to maintain the old Help, but one feature I
> used extensively -- as a newbie to R or to an unfamiliar package -- was the
> capability of searching for a word or phrase on the Help page itself.
> Ctrl-F/Command-F (Windows/mac) 'differently-phrased-capability' was a
Sirs:
I understand that no one wanted to maintain the old Help, but one feature I
used extensively -- as a newbie to R or to an unfamiliar package -- was the
capability of searching for a word or phrase on the Help page itself.
Ctrl-F/Command-F (Windows/mac) 'differently-phrased-capability' was a
