What makes you think that is a bug?
?"if" and help("if") work
`An Introduction to R' says
For a feature specified by special characters, the argument must be
enclosed in double or single quotes, making it a ``character string'':
and that is true for a few other examples, as all good books (e.g.
MASS) point out.
On Tue, 3 Jun 2003 dominique.couturier@hec.unige.ch wrote:
> hello dear [R] experts,
>
> I use [R] 1.7.0 on Unix and have noticed that I could'nt load the help
> of the function "if" with the command
>
> >?if
> +
> +
>
> or the command
>
> > help(if)
> Error: syntax error
>
> I deeply thank you and congratulate you for all your work,
> [R] is a wonderfull programm :-)
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