Re: [R] apropos and find

2010-04-20 Thread Gavin Simpson
On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 10:24 +0200, Karsten Rincke wrote: > Hello, > I'm starting working myself in the use of R, reading M. J. Crawley, The > R Book. The problem I do encounter is concerning the commands apropos > and find: > > > apropos(edit) > Fehler: is.character(what) is not TRUE > > find(edit

Re: [R] apropos and find

2010-04-20 Thread Christian Raschke
?apropos says that it expects a character string. Therefore use quotes: > apropos("edit") > [1] "edit" "file.edit" "xedit" Christian On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 10:24 +0200, Karsten Rincke wrote: > Hello, > I'm starting working myself in the use of R, reading M. J. Crawley, The > R Book. The

[R] apropos and find

2010-04-20 Thread Karsten Rincke
Hello, I'm starting working myself in the use of R, reading M. J. Crawley, The R Book. The problem I do encounter is concerning the commands apropos and find: > apropos(edit) Fehler: is.character(what) is not TRUE > find(edit) Fehler: is.character(what) is not TRUE I get the same error message ty