On 16/04/2015 5:02 PM, paul wrote: > The help for the cygwin port of R is buggy and hides random lines of > text.
You've already been told not to use the Cygwin port. It's buggy in the help pages, and probably in many other respects as well. It doesn't pass the R self-tests. Don't use it. Duncan Murdoch Consquently, I've been relying on Google, but it is often not > clear how directly relevant the info is for the specific command that > I'm using. For example, reshape is complicated, and has more than 1 > version. > > Is there an online version of the help pages? > > I tried looking for html versions of the help pages by ferruting > through the R.home() subtree. Haven't found them so far. There are > package pages in subdirectories <package>/html/00Index.html, but they > just contain links to html files that don't reside in my R.home() > subtree. There are also subdirectories <package>/help, but they > contain pages that I don't recognize (*.rds, *.rdb, *.rdx). > > Getting desparate here, and realizing how the web is not in any way a > substituted for locally available help pages that you can be confident > is right for your installation. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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. > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.