This functionality does seem needed in base R to me too but
in the interim you could create a package to make it available on
CRAN or if that seems excessive for just one function you could
contact the author of one of the multi-author packages and see if
they would include it in their package.
I've noticed that a frequently asked question on R-help is how to sort a
data frame by multiple columns. Since this question is asked so often,
making this task easier for users seems a worthwhile goal.
At a minimum, the following changes to the documentation would surely be
helpful and reduce e
On 6/10/2005 8:17 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> On 6/10/2005 8:00 AM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
>> It would be invoked like this:
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>>package?boot
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>> with the effect of giving help on boot-package.
>
> Okay, I get it. That's a good change. I'll put it in unless I hear
> objections very
On 6/10/2005 8:00 AM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> On 6/10/05, Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Kurt Hornik wrote:
>> >>Duncan Murdoch writes:
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>> >On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
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>> >>My proposal (modified
On 6/10/05, Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Kurt Hornik wrote:
> >>Duncan Murdoch writes:
> >
> >
> >On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
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> >[...]
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> >>My proposal (modified following the suggestions I've heard so far) is as
> >>fo
Kurt Hornik wrote:
>>Duncan Murdoch writes:
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>On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
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>[...]
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>>My proposal (modified following the suggestions I've heard so far) is as
>>follows:
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>> - to check that a couple of help topic aliases exist (.
