Dear list, I'm not so familiar with the internals of the fortunes package, but I really like the interface. I was wondering if someone had implemented a similar functionality to parse the entries of the R FAQ < http://cran.r-project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html >. Say, if I was to answer a question "Why does my lattice graphic fail to produce an output in this function?", I might try: library(rfaq) faq("lattice") ## or if I were a number kind of person faq(722) The database could be split into "windows only", etc. Should this approach prove useful, one could even imagine using this rfaq database as the original source to produce the current html page. The infrastructure might also be of interest for other packages which could provide their own database. Just a thought anyway, Best regards, baptiste