>>>>> "BDR" == Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>>> on Wed, 5 Nov 2003 15:51:09 +0000 (GMT) writes:
BDR> On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, David Brahm wrote:
>> Neil Osborne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is any
>> one aware of R help documentation that is aranged in
>> functional > categories for e.g.: > String manipulation >
>> File I/O > Dataframe, List manipulation
>>
>> There really oughta be. Several people replied with ways
>> to search the help, but that assumes you know the
>> specific task you want to perform, and the right
>> "keyword" to describe it. Beginners often just want to
>> learn what's available.
BDR> Well, as described in your quotation you need to know
BDR> the `functional categories' and help.start's search
BDR> page does list the known `functional categories' and
BDR> will list under each one. So there really IS, not
BDR> `oughta be',
BDR> Similarly help.search can list by categories, aka
BDR> keywords. Perhaps its help page needs to say where the
BDR> list of standard keywords is.
Good, idea!
such as tell the user to execute
file.show(file.path(R.home(),"doc", "KEYWORDS"))
{BTW, a problem with KEYWORDS is that "R CMD check" works
with KEYWORDS.db, and the human readable KEYWORDS needs to be
kept in sync with *.db manually}.
Martin
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