Full_Name: Greg Kochanski
Version: 2.2.0
OS: Debian Linux on i686
Submission from: (NULL) (212.159.16.190)
Debian packages the R documentation separately from the R core code.
Consequently, it is possible for people to have R without
the HTML documentation. (In fact, the docs are not installed
Full_Name: Greg Kochanski
Version: 2.2.0
OS: Debian Linux i686
Submission from: (NULL) (212.159.16.190)
In /usr/share/doc/r-doc-html/manual/R-data.html (at least that's where
it is on Debian...) the documentation is unclear. Comments below.
The paragraph has unclear references, and I have no
Full_Name: Greg Kochanski
Version: 2.2.0
OS: Debian Linux i686
Submission from: (NULL) (212.159.16.190)
The data set for "faithful" appears to be (column 1) the duration
of the eruptions, and (column 2) the interval between eruptions.
(See
http://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-patched/library/datasets/
This is all based on a false premise: that a partial install of Debian
files is 'R'.
R's own scripts do always install the HTML documentation, so help.start()
is entitled to assume that it is present. (That is under Unix-alikes: R
for Windows allows Compiled HTML rather than HTML, and so help.s
