Thank you Gerald, This works very well. I hadn't seen this feature as I've been managing packages at the command line or from a shell. "Packages and Data" - "Package Manager" raises the R Package Manager gui, which has two panels (you might not see one of them if the slider is fully at the top or bottom of the window) Selecting a package in the top panel invokes the Index page of help for the selected package, close enough to what I was looking for. The feature I enquired about is already in place, thanks to Simon Urbanek and the others who have done such a great job with the Mac R.app -----Original Message----- From: Gerald Jurasinski [mailto:gerald.jurasinski at uni-rostock.de] Sent: Fri 10/5/2007 7:27 AM To: Steven McKinney Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Raising the Index page for a package in Mac R Help window Steven, You could use the GUI feature "Packages and Data" (could be a slightly different naming, but i only have a german interface). When you choose the menu item Package Management you can choose packages to load. In the moment you check the box for a package the index page appears in the lower panel of the window.. You may have to open the lower panel by dragging the slider.. Your approach works if the package maintainer has prepared it.. Best regards gerald ------------------ Dr. Gerald Jurasinski Landscape Ecology and Site Evaluation Institute for Management of Rural Areas Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences University of Rostock Justus-von-Liebig-Weg 6 18059 Rostock Germany gerald.jurasinski at uni-rostock.de http://www.auf.uni-rostock.de/loe +49 381 4983225 (tel) +49 381 4983222 (fax) Am 03.10.2007 um 22:24 schrieb Steven McKinney:
Hi all, Is it possible to raise the "Index" page for a given package, in the Apple R GUI R Help window (not the HTML - web browser help interface)? For example, if I load library(lme4) I'd like to be able to raise the lme4 Index page in the R Help window that accompanies the R GUI window on the Mac. Currently I have to know the name of a function, say "lmer", or find the name of a package function by looking through the list of functions (typically in position 2 on the search path after loading a library), then
?lmer
raises the lmer help page, and I scroll to the bottom where I see [Package lme4 version 0.99875-7 Index] and I click on the "Index" hyperlink. It would be great to be able to enter
?lme4
and go straight to the lme4 help Index page. Is this possible? (I haven't found this in any documentation.) If not, could I put in a request for this feature? Steven McKinney Statistician Molecular Oncology and Breast Cancer Program British Columbia Cancer Research Centre email: smckinney +at+ bccrc +dot+ ca tel: 604-675-8000 x7561 BCCRC Molecular Oncology 675 West 10th Ave, Floor 4 Vancouver B.C. V5Z 1L3 Canada
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