For what it is worth, I would gladly sacrifice this capability in order to be able to consult all my R help pages through a Firefox bookmark to the packages listing (which is what I used to do, and will do again, when I get time to either rebuild from source or get the forthcoming Fedora RPM, which will have static pages as the default), without starting an R session.
Jon On 01/07/10 10:32, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > A more useful example than ls() would be methods(). I think it would > be nice to have a list of methods included in the man page for a generic > function, and links to their pages if they have their own man pages. > You might want to list all installed methods, with some sort of > highlighting to indicate which ones are already attached, or perhaps be > able to toggle between installed and attached, or whatever. None of > that is possible with static help, not even a list of installed methods, > because someone might install a new package that offers some others > after the static help has already been built. > > You just need to use some imagination. > > Duncan Murdoch ______________________________________________ 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.
