A.J. Rossini
2004-Sep-09 20:07 UTC
[Rd] man page of hist points to truehist, which can't be viewed without loading a library?
rdevel from yesterday, also in 1.9.1 (Debian, -3).
The man page of 'hist' (from the graphics package, obtained by
"?hist") suggests 'truehist' under "see also", but
'truehist' isn't
loaded by default (a sensible "of course"), so that
"?truehist" fails.
One can do help.search(), of course, which points what to do, but
leads to my question:
In referencing functions in other packages, should the "See Also"
link mention the library that they are coming from? I'm less
concerned about the example and more concerned about some packages
I'm wrapping up.
(this was from the command line in a terminal window, not w/in ESS).
best,
-tony
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Prof Brian Ripley
2004-Sep-09 20:52 UTC
[Rd] man page of hist points to truehist, which can't be viewed without loading a library?
On Thu, 9 Sep 2004, A.J. Rossini wrote:> > rdevel from yesterday, also in 1.9.1 (Debian, -3). > > The man page of 'hist' (from the graphics package, obtained by > "?hist") suggests 'truehist' under "see also", but 'truehist' isn't > loaded by default (a sensible "of course"), so that "?truehist" fails. > One can do help.search(), of course, which points what to do, but > leads to my question: > > In referencing functions in other packages, should the "See Also" > link mention the library that they are coming from? I'm less > concerned about the example and more concerned about some packages > I'm wrapping up. > > (this was from the command line in a terminal window, not w/in ESS).It is the norm: see e.g. format.Date.Rd or write.table.Rd, and a good idea. -- Brian D. Ripley, ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595