R devel - Feb 2000 - Help System (PR#428)

Dear R developers,

sorry about the empty bug-report that I seem to have filed earlier.
(I wrote it via `bug.report()' from within R using `emacsclient'.  I
wasn't aware that I have to save the file after pressing C-x # and
before sending it.)  Hopefully this time it will work......

I noticed the following problem with the on-line help system:

1) I start an R session and type help.start().  
2) In the web page that appears in my browser (Netscape 4.5) I select
   `Search Engine & Keywords'
3) For some keywords (e.g., htest [Statistics] and optimize
   [Mathematics]) in the Keywords by Section list, I get as result
that "no matches for XXXX have been found" if I select them.  But if I
enter those keywords into the text field that appears at the top of
the page and press return, the commands that are grouped under that
keyword are found.

Also, while playing around with these keywords and trying to figure
out what is going on (but, unfortunately, I don't know Javascript well
enough) I noticed that the new function `optim' has as keywords only
`nonlinear' but not `optimize'.  And again, if I select the keyword
`nonlinear' [Statistcs > Models > Regression > Nonlinear], optim
does
not appear on the page of results.  But if I enter `nonlinear' into
the search text field, it appears on the page of results.

Cheers,

        Berwin Turlach

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Version:
 platform = i686-unknown-linux
 arch = i686
 os = linux
 system = i686, linux
 status = Patched
 major = 0
 minor = 99.0
 year = 2000
 month = February
 day = 9
 language = R

Search Path:
 .GlobalEnv, Autoloads, package:base

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>>>>> On Fri, 11 Feb 2000 05:12:04 +0100 (MET),
>>>>> berwin  (b) wrote:
b> Dear R developers,
b> sorry about the empty bug-report that I seem to have filed earlier.
b> (I wrote it via `bug.report()' from within R using `emacsclient'. 
I
b> wasn't aware that I have to save the file after pressing C-x # and
b> before sending it.)  Hopefully this time it will work......

b> I noticed the following problem with the on-line help system:

b> 1) I start an R session and type help.start().  
b> 2) In the web page that appears in my browser (Netscape 4.5) I select
b>    `Search Engine & Keywords'
b> 3) For some keywords (e.g., htest [Statistics] and optimize
b>    [Mathematics]) in the Keywords by Section list, I get as result
b> that "no matches for XXXX have been found" if I select them. 
But if I
b> enter those keywords into the text field that appears at the top of
b> the page and press return, the commands that are grouped under that
b> keyword are found.

Well, good time for a bug report like this as I have re-worked the
search engine yesterday (to allow more flexibility and automatic
creation of keyword lists). I see the problems you describe in the old
version, but fortunately:

Clicking on htest now lists all of ctest together with several other
pages.

optimize also gives a non-empty return (though function optim misses
the keyword, I'll fix that).

b> Also, while playing around with these keywords and trying to figure
b> out what is going on (but, unfortunately, I don't know Javascript well
b> enough) I noticed that the new function `optim' has as keywords only
b> `nonlinear' but not `optimize'.  And again, if I select the
keyword
b> `nonlinear' [Statistcs > Models > Regression > Nonlinear],
optim does
b> not appear on the page of results.  But if I enter `nonlinear' into
b> the search text field, it appears on the page of results.

optim is listed under nonlinear in the new version.

Thanks a lot for the bug report,

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