>> In the previous release of r, theire was a index of all functions in R. >> It was was i understand as reference. It was simple to search in this html >> page by function name or by keywords. >> Why, by god, this page is removed in the Veriosn 1.3 of R???> Take a look at R_HOME/doc/html/function.html .... The browser-based search > engine was not on that page, but help.start() will lead you to where it has > always been.In the download I received, function.html now has only this: <body> This page is obsolete. <p> See the <a href="../manual/refman.pdf">Reference Manual</a> for comprehensive information on the functions and datasets that come with the R distribution, or use the <a href="search/SearchEngine.html">Search Engine</a>. (and the refman.pdf is not in the ../manual directory) Denis White US EPA, 200 SW 35th St, Corvallis, Oregon, 97333 USA voice: 541.754.4476, email: white.denis at epa.gov web: www.epa.gov/wed/pages/staff/white/ -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
Prof Brian D Ripley
2001-Jul-06 06:05 UTC
[R] Where is the html page that lists all functions?
On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Denis White wrote:> >> In the previous release of r, theire was a index of all functions in R. > >> It was was i understand as reference. It was simple to search in this html > >> page by function name or by keywords. > >> Why, by god, this page is removed in the Veriosn 1.3 of R??? > > > Take a look at R_HOME/doc/html/function.html .... The browser-based search > > engine was not on that page, but help.start() will lead you to where it has > > always been. > > In the download I received, function.html now has only this:Right!> <body> > This page is obsolete. <p> > > See the <a href="../manual/refman.pdf">Reference Manual</a> for > comprehensive information on the functions and datasets that come with > the R distribution, or use the <a href="search/SearchEngine.html">Search > Engine</a>. > > (and the refman.pdf is not in the ../manual directory)No, but it is made in the INSTALL process: see the R-admin manual. As that page says: 1) The reference manual is now only in PDF. 2) The search facilities are where that page says they are (and have always been). They were *not* on the page which listed all functions. -- Brian D. Ripley, ripley at 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 272860 (secr) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
> > (and the refman.pdf is not in the ../manual directory) > > No, but it is made in the INSTALL process: see the R-admin manual. > > As that page says: > > 1) The reference manual is now only in PDF. > 2) The search facilities are where that page says they are (and have > always been). They were *not* on the page which listed all functions.Ok, we're figuring it out (hadn't needed stuff like pdftex before); thanks again for belaboring what we should have noticed. Two other points: SetupR.exe for win did not appear to contain refman.pdf. Finally, the functional structure of help through the keywords is just right much of the time, but, now and then, an alphabetical index would be very useful. Denis -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
As an alternative to help.start(), I set up a web page on my office computer and I plan to leave it on most of the time. I also installed (per the suggestion of someone on this list) htdig, and it is set up to search the R documentation for keywords. Interestingly, I have not yet re-run htdig since upgrading to R 1.3.0, and so far everything seems to work. (But I will do it soon.) The page is http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/ and it has other documentation. This is more of an example to imitate than something you should rely on forever. If you do imitate it, the trick (on Red Hat Linux 7.1) is to link from /var/www/http/R to /usr/lib/R and then refer to the pages as R/doc/html and R/doc/html/function.html, respectively. This makes sure that the base directory is set properly. Jon Baron -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._