I must add my penny's worth to this thread.
Harvey Monder is right on by criticizing the quality and inadequacies of
GUI command and usage documentation, it is inadequate, inaccurate, and
misleading. I have passed more than one specific example to the S support
folks (A great bunch, have you tried them?).
an aside to Andy Liaw who wrote:
>My guess is that you are using Splus functions written for the Splus GUI.
>If I'm not mistaken, these functions were intended to be called/used only
>through the Splus GUI, not from command line or scripts.
please see the opening section of Chapter 11 of the new S-Plus 6
Programmer's Guide
Programming documentation and the weather. Must it always be so? NOTHING
can be done?
Not true, for any of you who encountered the original Apple Lisa Manuals
know that. Why did Apple immediately stop having the users manuals written
(by prospective users) before even the design stages of development? oh well.
Given this, I would suggest that as well as, or even instead of, asking
this group for specific bail-out info for the various traps, we all attempt
to dig out solutions (I know most do) and ship the heartache stories to
S-Support with specific documentation shortcomings. Conflicts, inscrutable
language, and omissions are simple to correct ONCE they have been flagged.
Then perhaps we can hope the situation will slowly improve.
cheers,
john
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