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On Tue, 27-Jan-2004 at 01:26PM +0000, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
|> My preferred option is to scale down people's expectations, and
|> perhaps say on the search page that this will only work if your
|> system is set up properly, but help.search() will always work.

Java doesn't seem to present a problem with clunky old Netscape 4.7x
if anyone still has one hanging around.  That could be considered
scaling down expectations.

Simpler and more satisfactory, IMHO, is to use ? or C-c C-v in ESS
sometimes in conjunction with help.search().  Links to other help
files require a 'h' and <Enter>.  Does everything I need and I'm yet
to be convinced that's a scaling down.

Just in case anyone didn't know:  ESS is brilliant!

HTH
Message-ID: <20040128092921.Q935@hortresearch.co.nz>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0401271314470.21392-100000@gannet.stats>; from ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk on Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 01:26:31PM +0000