On Tuesday 02 April 2002 12:25, ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk wrote:
On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, E.L. Willighagen wrote:
On Tuesday 02 April 2002 10:05, Uwe Ligges wrote:
"E.L. Willighagen" wrote: 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
Must there? Why do you assert that? As far as I am aware, there are no such packages, and I have tested/ported all those on CRAN.
Aren't there methods to calculated means and variances? Did I misunderstood that those can be used in Shewart charts? Ofcourse, things might need extensions, like a chart plotter... I have not tested all CRAN modules, but I would have a too positive impression about R...
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?
Because R is a volunteer project, and no one has (AFAIK) contributed such methods. It seems that for them to be really useful approximate matching is needed. I do think you have a fundamental misconception of a project such as R. The developers wrote R for their own purposes, which include a vehicle for teaching statistics and to promulgate their favourite statistical methods. They made what they did freely available. What we do not do is provide facilities on demand, from you or anyone else.
That is why I cross-posted this message to r-devel. Is there interest in such functionality? At least I am interested, even in coding this extra functionality, but before doing so, I thought it would be nice to discuss this on the developers list...
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