Strange as it may seem, I've been digging into R a lot these last few months
and, although I was aware of help.start(), I hadn't ever tried the search
link.
That is a very nice feature.
I humbly suggest that section 1.7 in the R Intro have a line added that goes
something like this:
"The 'Search Engine and Keywords' link in the page loaded by
help.start() is
particularly useful as it is contains a high-level concept list which
searches though available functions. It can be a great way to get you
bearings quickly and to understand the breadth of what R has to offer."
Chris Marshall
-----Original Message-----
From: Uwe Ligges
To: freud at starpower.net
Cc: R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Sent: 6/6/01 2:14 AM
Subject: Re: [R] R Function Guide
freud at starpower.net wrote:>
> I was wondering if there was anything for R like the function guide
> provided by insightful for S-Plus at the url below:
>
> http://www.insightful.com/resources/fguide.html
>
> What makes if particularly appealing is the organization of
> functions by class.
>
> If there is not something like this for R, I think it would be a great
> addition to the R documentation. It would provide an easy way to
> identify an available function for a particular category of analysis
> and thus facilitate viewing the help pages for the appropriate
> function or functions--particularly if this were available for not
just> base packages, but contributed packages as well. Personally, I
> find the biggest weakness of the current help system is the fact
> that I must know the name of a function in advance to request help
> on some analysis or proceedure. Would be nice to start with a
> general idea, category, class, or set of proceedures and move to a
> list of related functions.
>
> Extending the original idea, wouldn't it be great if there were a list
> as described above that, in addition to listing functions by
> category, also provided package information, availability, version,
> etc for the listed functions.
>
> I recognize that there is probably some overlap with the S-Plus
> guide, and that it in itself is probably a good reference, or at least
a> nice starting point for a simliar R guide. However, I also suspect
> that quite a lot of the S-Plus functionality listed is not yet
> implemented in R. Perhaps I am wrong.
Use help.start() and go to "Search Engine & Keywords".
Uwe Ligges
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