RE^2: [Rd] New generic functions in "R base" {was `truncate'}
On Fri, 25 May 2001, Paul Gilbert wrote:
PG> Some search/browse capability sure would be nice and I think this PG> problem is going to get worse with the elimination of function.html in R PG> 1.3.0. Perhaps there is a possibility of putting a giant index of all PG> functions in all packages on CRAN? BDR>Not only is it nice, but we do already have it, twice, in fact! BDR> BDR>There are two search/browse facilities for all current libraries (and I BDR>mean that, not packages), namely help.search() and the Java-based HTML BDR>search. Try them some time! Brian Yes, I have tried these and they are very useful, but I believe they only work for installed packages. If I am wrong about that then something else is broken since your example gives this for me:
help.search("confidence interval")
No help files found with alias or title matching `confidence interval'
Nothing does uninstalled packages, as R has no means of knowing about them! help.search does search un-loaded packages, as in my example. In fact the same set as the function list (on Unix). Looks as if something may be wrong your end: if MASS is in some library it should be found. [1] ".GlobalEnv" "package:ctest" "Autoloads" "package:base"
help.search("confidence interval")
Help files with alias or title matching `confidence interval': Type `?FOO' to inspect entry `FOO(PKG) TITLE'. confint(MASS) Confidence Intervals for Model Parameters ...
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