Help in 2.10 lost its "Find" feature

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I understand that no one wanted to maintain the old Help, but one feature I
used extensively -- as a newbie to R or to an unfamiliar package -- was the
capability of searching for a word or phrase on the Help page itself.
Ctrl-F/Command-F (Windows/mac) 'differently-phrased-capability' was a fast
way to find out how to specify the arguments for a function call to
accommodate a "capability" phrased differently than could be found in the
author's designed argument list, especially for long and informative Help's.
If new-Help could easily be enhanced to resurrect that feature, I believe
many users would appreciate it. Thanks.
Most browsers offer this feature - it certainly works in safari and
firefox, and I'm sure in internet explorer too.

Hadley
http://had.co.nz/
For the text based help, there is no search feature on Windows, e.g.

options(help_type="text");
help(readLines);

but if you use the HTML-based help, you can use the browser's search
features as suggested/wanted:

options(help_type="html");
help(readLines);

/Henrik
I understand that no one wanted to maintain the old Help, but one feature I
used extensively -- as a newbie to R or to an unfamiliar package -- was the
capability of searching for a word or phrase on the Help page itself.
Ctrl-F/Command-F (Windows/mac) 'differently-phrased-capability' was a fast
way to find out how to specify the arguments for a function call to
accommodate a "capability" phrased differently than could be found in the
author's designed argument list, especially for long and informative Help's.
If new-Help could easily be enhanced to resurrect that feature, I believe
many users would appreciate it. Thanks.
Most browsers offer this feature - it certainly works in safari and
firefox, and I'm sure in internet explorer too.

Hadley

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I understand that no one wanted to maintain the old Help, but one feature I
used extensively -- as a newbie to R or to an unfamiliar package -- was the
capability of searching for a word or phrase on the Help page itself.
Ctrl-F/Command-F (Windows/mac) 'differently-phrased-capability' was a fast
way to find out how to specify the arguments for a function call to
accommodate a "capability" phrased differently than could be found in the
author's designed argument list, especially for long and informative Help's.
If new-Help could easily be enhanced to resurrect that feature, I believe
many users would appreciate it. Thanks.
Most browsers offer this feature - it certainly works in safari and
firefox, and I'm sure in internet explorer too.
I think Daniel was talking about the full text search of all pages. 
This index for this was built by the Microsoft Help Compiler so it was 
available in CHM help; the Mac has the full text search available in 
lots of places, so it worked there just because the system automatically 
indexed the static HTML pages.

I think it would be nice to get this back and make it less platform 
specific.  It would need indexing of the content of the pages, and 
Javascript or similar to access the indices.

Duncan Murdoch
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I think it would be nice to get this back and make it less platform
specific. ?It would need indexing of the content of the pages, and
Javascript or similar to access the indices.
It would be nice to have an interface to something like lucene - would
be useful for other projects apart from R help.

Hadley
http://had.co.nz/