On Tuesday 02 April 2002 10:05, Uwe Ligges wrote:
"E.L. Willighagen" wrote:
On Tuesday 02 April 2002 09:27, Uwe Ligges wrote:
Indrajit SenGupta wrote:
Can we expect to see an R package on Statistical Quality Control in the future like SPLUS? I can't understand why nobody made this package before.
Nice to hear you would like to contribute! Thank you!
Rather often, I get the feeling that the developer are feeling underappreciated? Don't.
After first thoughts about ignoring your message: No, I don't feel underappreciated.
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R provides the tools for easily documenting and packaging functions.
Interesting point, because I am working on a library with the same issues:
how to make stuff easy to find... R offers keywords, aliases and full-text
search. But that is all, right?
And these only work for installed packages (i.e. those within the search
path...) And (just tested), full-text search does not include searching
references or descriptions, right (i.e. \description{} and \reference{})?
For example,
help.search("Dongarra")
No help files found with alias or title matching `Dongarra' Dongarra is author from article in svd(). Did I miss some crucial functionality of help() and help.search()? Why can only keywords and aliasses be searched? To return to Indrajit's question: there must be several other packages with which one can do statistical quality control, or at least with some minor extensions... But he seems not be able to find them. Ofcourse, that could be imcompetence, but even then... should R be only used by experts, and not by novice? In other words, is there a reason why R does not have more extensive search methods that can be used by novice to get to know R in such depth that the do not have to bug the R-help@ mailling list? Egon -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._