Dear R list, I have installed R 2.1.1 for Windows. In the help menu of the Rgui I can load all manuals except the reference manual. I downloaded the reference manual from the cran-site separately and saved it into the same folder as the other manuals but still it is not available in the menu. How can I solve this problem? Thank your for the help
Reference manual is not available in the help menu of the rgui
8 messages · Sean O'Riordain, Alvarez Pedro, Duncan Murdoch +2 more
Alvarez Pedro <palvarez7777 at yahoo.es> writes:
Dear R list, I have installed R 2.1.1 for Windows. In the help menu of the Rgui I can load all manuals except the reference manual. I downloaded the reference manual from the cran-site separately and saved it into the same folder as the other manuals but still it is not available in the menu. How can I solve this problem? Thank your for the help
Would you really want to read that cover to cover? Everything in it is available via the on-line help system.
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Alvarez Pedro wrote:
Dear R list, I have installed R 2.1.1 for Windows. In the help menu of the Rgui I can load all manuals except the reference manual. I downloaded the reference manual from the cran-site separately and saved it into the same folder as the other manuals but still it is not available in the menu. How can I solve this problem?
Re-install, and this time check the box to install that manual. But as Peter says, it's not really very useful, it's just a collection of man pages from the base packages. Duncan Murdoch
Actually, I've started reading the reference manual... :-) I printed it out 2-to-a-page and I'm working my way through it, in order to learn about the full capabilities of the base system... I know I'm not going to remember everything, but when I bump into a particular problem, I'll know what type of solutions to use and what sort of keywords to search for... frequently the problem with help is knowing that vital keyword when I in my ignorant non-statistician way want to use another vocabularly... :-) cheers! Sean
On 02/09/05, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca> wrote:
Alvarez Pedro wrote:
Dear R list, I have installed R 2.1.1 for Windows. In the help menu of the Rgui I can load all manuals except the reference manual. I downloaded the reference manual from the cran-site separately and saved it into the same folder as the other manuals but still it is not available in the menu. How can I solve this problem?
Re-install, and this time check the box to install that manual. But as Peter says, it's not really very useful, it's just a collection of man pages from the base packages. Duncan Murdoch
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Re-install, and this time check the box to install that manual. But as
Dear Mr. Murdoch, thank you for the answer, apparently there is no other solution than a re-installation.
Peter says, it's not really very useful, it's just a collection of man pages from the base packages.
... I want to have the reference manual only because my eyes like it more to read pdfs then text in the console (and with the search function I am as quickly as in the other case).
On 9/2/2005 8:59 AM, Alvarez Pedro wrote:
> Re-install, and this time check the box to install that manual. But as
Dear Mr. Murdoch, thank you for the answer, apparently there is no other solution than a re-installation.
... or downloading it from CRAN, as you did. Duncan Murdoch
Peter says, it's not really very useful, it's just a collection of man pages from the base packages.
... I want to have the reference manual only because my eyes like it more to read pdfs then text in the console (and with the search function I am as quickly as in the other case).
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Sean O'Riordain writes:
Actually, I've started reading the reference manual... :-) I printed it out 2-to-a-page and I'm working my way through it,
Ah! This reminds me of the `good old days', reading the Emacs manual, Emacs lisp manual, Gnu C library manual, .... The payoff came in the section giving the meaning of the C library error codes: EGREGIOUS means `You did *what*?'. :-)
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bhx2 at mevik.net (Bj??rn-Helge Mevik) writes:
Sean O'Riordain writes:
Actually, I've started reading the reference manual... :-) I printed it out 2-to-a-page and I'm working my way through it,
Ah! This reminds me of the `good old days', reading the Emacs manual, Emacs lisp manual, Gnu C library manual, .... The payoff came in the section giving the meaning of the C library error codes: EGREGIOUS means `You did *what*?'. :-)
I actually have a huge list of those. Among the better ones: ECHERNOBYL Broken pipe EFLAT String out of range EGAD Surely you jest EH Canadian user error EIEIO Bug, bug here, bug bug there ENIXON Tape problem ENODICE Error in rand EZ Had been faster on paper (Report from Usenix 1986, EUUG Newsletter)
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