[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bjørn-Helge Mevik) writes:
> Peter Dalgaard writes:
>
> > There are irregularities, e.g. the fact that you do help(foo), not
> > help("foo"), but they tend to get a pain in the long run (How do you
> > get help on a name contained in a variable?
>
> v <- "lm"; help(v)
> works for me :-)
Eh? When did that sneak in? (1.8.0, I suppose) It's actually not as
working as documented...
topic: usually, the name on which documentation is sought. The name
may be quoted or unquoted (but note that if 'topic' is the
name of a variable containing a character string
documentation is provided for the name, not for the character
string).
c <- "lm"; help(c)
works too, for some values of "works"... (I.e. not if you were looking
for help on c()). Also
> help(.Library)
No documentation for '/usr/lib/R/library' in specified packages and
libraries:
you could try 'help.search("/usr/lib/R/library")'
whereas ?.Library does work.
And my workaround inside tkStartGUI is now exactly the Wrong Thing to
do. Oh well...
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