[ Unfortunately, yet another person (or rather Micro$oft Outlook configuration?), sending mail to me, the list maintainer (owner-...), rather than the mailing list... MM ] From: "M. Shiham Adam" <msadam at soest.hawaii.edu> To: <owner-r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch> Subject: .R Directory in Win ver 1.3.0 Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 12:42:42 -1000 Dear R user, I am a neophyte user of R when I installed Windows version. R 1.3.0 an additional directory <.R> was created which has only <help.db> file. I do not recall having this directory in the previous version. What is the significance of this directory? Are these the help files? Can someone please explain this to me. Shiham Adam -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
.R Directory in Win ver 1.3.0 [forwarded]
2 messages · M. Shiham Adam, Brian Ripley
On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, M. Shiham Adam wrote:
[ Unfortunately, yet another person (or rather Micro$oft Outlook configuration?), sending mail to me, the list maintainer (owner-...), rather than the mailing list... MM ] From: "M. Shiham Adam" <msadam at soest.hawaii.edu> To: <owner-r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch> Subject: .R Directory in Win ver 1.3.0 Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 12:42:42 -1000 Dear R user, I am a neophyte user of R when I installed Windows version. R 1.3.0 an additional directory <.R> was created which has only <help.db> file. I do not recall having this directory in the previous version. What is the significance of this directory? Are
It *was* used in earlier versions.
these the help files? Can someone please explain this to me.
It is for internal use by help.search(). (Try ?help.search for an fuller explnation.) You can delete it: it will be re-created in every R session in which it is needed. Using names beginning with `.' is a Unix convention for files/directories which are not for use by the end users. Just ignore them.
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 272860 (secr) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help 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-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._