That did it. Was having trouble searching 'help' for how to optionally configure 'help'. Thanks. -Dan
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Henrik Bengtsson <h...@stat.berkeley.edu>wrote: > For the text based help, there is no search feature on Windows, e.g. > > options(help_type="text"); > help(readLines); > > but if you use the HTML-based help, you can use the browser's search > features as suggested/wanted: > > options(help_type="html"); > help(readLines); > > /Henrik > > > On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 5:40 PM, hadley wickham <h.wick...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> I understand that no one wanted to maintain the old Help, but one > feature I > >> used extensively -- as a newbie to R or to an unfamiliar package -- was > the > >> capability of searching for a word or phrase on the Help page itself. > >> Ctrl-F/Command-F (Windows/mac) 'differently-phrased-capability' was a > fast > >> way to find out how to specify the arguments for a function call to > >> accommodate a "capability" phrased differently than could be found in > the > >> author's designed argument list, especially for long and informative > Help's. > >> If new-Help could easily be enhanced to resurrect that feature, I > believe > >> many users would appreciate it. Thanks. > > > > Most browsers offer this feature - it certainly works in safari and > > firefox, and I'm sure in internet explorer too. > > > > Hadley > > > > -- > > http://had.co.nz/ > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
