At 09:45 PM 11/18/2004, John Fox wrote: [...]
6) As has been pointed out, e.g., by Duncan Murdoch, solving the function-locating problem is best done by a method or methods that automatically accommodate the growing and changing set of contributed packages on CRAN. Why not, as previously has been proposed, replace the current static (and, in my view, not very useful) set of keywords in R documentation with the requirement that package authors supply their own keywords for each documented object? I believe that this is the intent of the concept entries in Rd files, but their use certainly is not required or even actively encouraged. (They're just mentioned in passing in the Writing R Extensions manual.) [...]
That should prove extremely helpful. Would it be practical to have the complete index installed with base R? That would help identify useful packages not yet in a user's installation.
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