[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>help(letters, htmlhelp=TRUE) fails.
>
> Under the Mac OSX gui, the message is 'Help for the topic "a" was not
> found.' Under the version documented below, and under Windows, the
> message is
>
>"No documentation for 'a' in specified packages and libraries:"
>
On a normal R help system any version of help(letters) tries to give you
help on a, b, etc. This is intentional (although the documentation is
unclearly worded), and has been the case since at least R 2.0.0.
Some versions of help will display only the first topic.
If help(letters, htmlhelp=FALS
On a normal R help system any version of help(letters) tries to give you
help on a, b, etc. This is intentional (although the documentation is
unclearly worded), and has been the case since at least R 2.0.0.
Some versions of help will display only the first topic.
If help(letters, htmlhelp=FALS
There seems also to be a difference between the way 'help()' and '?'
handle 'topic' in some cases.
Consider:
lm <- "aov"
The following all bring up help for 'lm':
?lm
?"lm"
help("lm")
This opens help for 'aov':
help(lm)
It seems that "?" doesn't care about quoting, but "help" does.
Did I miss s
I would like to suggest a modification of initial scrambling of the
seed in RNG_Init (called from do_setseed). The modified code is
equivalent, but faster. Patch against R-devel_2007-09-22 follows
--- R-devel-orig/src/main/RNG.c 2007-09-02 07:49:35.0 +0200
+++ R-devel-modif/src/main/RNG.c
On Sun, 23 Sep 2007, P Ehlers wrote:
> There seems also to be a difference between the way 'help()' and '?'
> handle 'topic' in some cases.
Yes, that is intentional. I didn't mention it (after deliberation) as the
bug report was about help(htmlhelp=TRUE) and not ?. I did mention
clarifying th
Is there some way of displaying the expression and evaluation environment
associated with a promise? I have found the following:
> # first run these two commands to set up example
> e <- new.env()
> delayedAssign("y", x*x, assign.env = e)
> # method 1. shows expression but not evaluation envir
