From: ben at zoo.ufl.edu Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 08:05:49 -0400 (EDT) A mild suggestion, by the way, is that "circle", "star", etc. be added to the _keywords_ of symbols(). It took me a while to find it in the help the last time I was looking for it.
keywords are from a prescribed list of categories (in R_HOME/doc/KEYWORDS).
What are the possibilities that a _full-text_ search capability could be added to the help front-end? Would it be prohibitively slow? (Or is there adaptable software that would, e.g., index all words except a list of stopwords into a reference database?)
The Windows help systems for R already do that on a pre-package basis. It is not prohibitively slow given the OS-level support, but it does take up quite a bit of space as the indices are built with the packages (and building base from the HTML files takes ca 25 secs then). It is the sort of thing which help.search might do, if re-written in a compiled language. Building its present database is quite slow and an FTS one would be very much slower in R.
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