The full-text search feature is broken in SPlus 4.5 for Windows. There was
a public posting to this list about this from MathSoft. They haven't
figured out a fix for it yet. So, this option isn't even available for some.
At 07:06 AM 5/21/98 -0700, Anne York wrote:
>The unix help facility is better than nothing. But, for example, try to
>find one of the options under par() without searching through the entire
>par help file. I have found this infuriating for some time. It is
>especially hard for a new user to know where to find the help. For
>someone who knows Splus well, the present system may be adequate.
>
>Anne
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>On Thu, 21 May 1998, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>
>>
>> > Date: Wed, 20 May 98 09:17:22 EST
>> > From: Charles Pollak <Charles_Pollak@intmed.med.ohio-state.edu>
>> > To: s-news@wubios.wustl.edu, donald@portal.ca (Alan Donald)
>> > Subject: [S] Re:
>> >
>> > Your problem thinking of the name of the appropriate S function
>> > (unlist in this case) perfectly illustrates a problem that many S
>> > users have had. The problem will only grow worse as new functions
>> > are added to an already large library. From the little I know
about
>> > inverted lists ("apropos" for example in Berkeley Unix), they would
>> > fit the bill nicely. You would enter a word (in your case, "list"
>> > or even "strip" or "vector") that might appear in the description
of a
>> > function, and a list of candidate function names would come back to
>> > spark your recognition (rather than recall) memory.
>>
>> Yes, that is a good idea. That's why there is such a system. On
>> Unix, try help.start() and enter the topic list. You get about 60
>> items, including unlist. Or just try help.topic("list").
>>
>> On Windows, you can do a full text search on the help file, but not (as
>> far as I know) a search on just the descriptions.
>>
>> Both this and apropos (which is the same as the more widespread man -k,
>> at least on SunOS) rely on good short descriptions, of course.
>>
>> --
>> 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 272860 (secr)
>> Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595
>>
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