Re: [R] Simple suggestion for improvement

2005-03-04 Thread Yan Wong
On 3 Mar 2005, at 17:17, Adaikalavan Ramasamy wrote: How will you deal with multiple word searches such as help.search("eps dev") One way to implement would be ??"eps dev" but this looks awkward to me. That's what you have to do with the normal help function sometimes anyway, e.g. ?"+" ?"

Re: [R] Simple suggestion for improvement

2005-03-03 Thread Adaikalavan Ramasamy
How will you deal with multiple word searches such as help.search("eps dev") One way to implement would be ??"eps dev" but this looks awkward to me. Regards, Adai On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 10:21 +, Yan Wong wrote: > On 3 Mar 2005, at 10:08, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > > > That's not a bad

Re: [R] Simple suggestion for improvement

2005-03-03 Thread Yan Wong
On 3 Mar 2005, at 10:08, Duncan Murdoch wrote: That's not a bad suggestion, but it might not be trivial to implement. Right now the "?" is an operator that is parsed like other operators such as "+": it becomes a function call . To have "??" mean something special would mean changes to the parser,

Re: [R] Simple suggestion for improvement

2005-03-03 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 09:54:26 +, Yan Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : >Hello, > >Being relatively new to R, I often find myself searching for functions >using help.search("term"). Why not have the command ??term invoke it in >the same way as ?topic invokes index.search("topic")? Using a double

[R] Simple suggestion for improvement

2005-03-03 Thread Yan Wong
Hello, Being relatively new to R, I often find myself searching for functions using help.search("term"). Why not have the command ??term invoke it in the same way as ?topic invokes index.search("topic")? Using a double question mark to invoke a wider search for a term seems relatively intuitive