Duncan Murdoch wrote: > >> This works when there's a decent documentation for the function. >> The functions in the tcltk package, for example, are horribly >> undocumented, and asking for help only loops to a general >> help about all (and none) of the functions. > > I don't remember if you've said which platform you're working on, > but if you're on Windows, the TCL/TK documentation is available to > you. It's in RHOME/Tcl/doc. This is mentioned in the ?tcltk R help > topic. > I always find it easier to get the help from the Internet, even using Google (search for "tcl/tk grid", for example) than with the internal documentation...
> I believe most Unix-like systems with TCL/TK support installed would > have the same documentation available, but I don't know where. > > That documentation assumes you're using a TCL interpreter rather > than R, so the syntax is all wrong, but there's a mechanical > translation from it to R syntax which is described in the > ?TkCommands R help topic. > > So these functions may be horribly documented, but they're not > horribly undocumented. > :-)))))))))))))))))))))))))) Ok, maybe I should shut up complaining and actually _do_ something useful, like going into the R-Wiki and _writing_ everything I learned about R in the past 6 months... Alberto Monteiro ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.
