3 messages · Brian Ripley, Seth Falcon
A further improvement to apropos() would be to sort the output. Currently, the output of apropos is in the order found on the search list and this will rarely be useful to the user. All that is needed is a sort(x) at the end of the function. + seth
Seth Falcon | Computational Biology | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center http://bioconductor.org
Seems sensible, but 2.5.0 is in feature freeze and it is possible that someone has relied on this. I've added this (and a \value section to the help file) for R-devel.
A further improvement to apropos() would be to sort the output. Currently, the output of apropos is in the order found on the search list and this will rarely be useful to the user. All that is needed is a sort(x) at the end of the function. + seth
Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595
Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> writes:
Seems sensible, but 2.5.0 is in feature freeze and it is possible that someone has relied on this. I've added this (and a \value section to the help file) for R-devel.
Excellent. Thank you. + seth
Seth Falcon | Computational Biology | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center http://bioconductor.org