Re: [R] Discovery on packages

2009-05-26 Thread Martin Maechler
> "PS" == Phil Spector > on Tue, 26 May 2009 09:25:26 -0700 (PDT) writes: PS> Janna - PS> Another thing that's sometimes useful with a new package PS> is to run the example function, like PS> example(TTR) PS> This will run the examples from the documentation to g

Re: [R] Discovery on packages

2009-05-26 Thread Phil Spector
Janna - Another thing that's sometimes useful with a new package is to run the example function, like example(TTR) This will run the examples from the documentation to give you a quick idea of what the package can do. - Phil Spector

Re: [R] Discovery on packages

2009-05-26 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 5/26/2009 10:25 AM, JannaB wrote: If I download a package -- how can I explore what it does? For instance, I downloaded the TTR package of off CRAN -- but how can I find out what it does? Is there a type of API doc for each package? JB If you ask for help using ?TTR, you'll get an overview p

[R] Discovery on packages

2009-05-26 Thread JannaB
If I download a package -- how can I explore what it does? For instance, I downloaded the TTR package of off CRAN -- but how can I find out what it does? Is there a type of API doc for each package? JB __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.et