?apropos says that it expects a character string. Therefore use quotes: > apropos("edit") > [1] "edit" "file.edit" "xedit"
Christian On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 10:24 +0200, Karsten Rincke wrote: > Hello, > I'm starting working myself in the use of R, reading M. J. Crawley, The > R Book. The problem I do encounter is concerning the commands apropos > and find: > > > apropos(edit) > Fehler: is.character(what) is not TRUE > > find(edit) > Fehler: is.character(what) is not TRUE > > I get the same error message typing anything else instead of "edit". > > The command ?edit seems to work well. > > What could be the reason for that I can't use apopos and find? > Thanks for your help! > > ______________________________________________ > 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. ______________________________________________ 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.