> From: Duncan Murdoch > Maybe we just need a manual on how to use the existing help system. But > I suspect people who won't read the existing manuals won't read that > one, either.
Duncan, I assume you're being facetious. Every R user soon learns to use help() and help.search() or their equivalents. We don't need a manual to teach that. > > Rolf Turner wrote: > >> The "help" facility is applicable to functions and data sets. It is not > >> designed > >> or intended to give "help" with respect to R syntax (with the exception of > >> the basic syntax of the operators --- unary and binary --- and the > >> associated > >> rules of precedence). Then why are there help pages ?":::", ?"for", ?"NA_character_", ?".C" and ?"??" but not ?"..." ?! ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
