On Jul 31, 2009, at 2:35 PM, Laura S. wrote:
I am relatively new to R, and would appreciate any suggestions you
may have.
I noticed on a Mac the functions' arguments are listed at the bottom
of the R console.
Is it possible to add such a feature to a Windows R console? I have
Windows XP if that helps.
I know function arguments can be found using args(...), but I was
wanting to have something more automatic, like what I saw on the Mac
computer.
I went into GUI preferences, but was not sure what to do. I noticed
for graphics, the playwith package can be used....I was wondering if
there was something similar to this for the arguments of functions
in R.
I believe the feature to which you are referring is the one called
"function hints". This is a fairly recent answer to this question from
a source that is generally authoritative:
http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/Rhelp08/2009-July/203189.html
The follow-up exchange also appears worth reading for Windows users.
David Winsemius, MD
Heritage Laboratories
West Hartford, CT
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