[ESS-bugs] ?MASS::mvrnorm not working

[Rodney Sparapani]

On 06/26/2012 04:31 PM, Vitalie Spinu wrote:
>
>    >  I'm having an issue that is possibly related to the above
>    >  (although, the original bug has been squashed)...
>
>    >  ess-version : 12.04-3 [rev. 4874 (2012-05-14)]
>
>    >  When I try ?MASS::mvrnorm
>    >  I get No documentation for 'MASS::mvrnorm'
>
> I think I know why this is happening. We are treating ?foo as help(foo)
> but they are apparently not the same :)
>
>     >  help("MASS::mvrnorm")
>     No documentation for ‘MASS::mvrnorm’ in specified packages and libraries:
>     you could try ‘??MASS::mvrnorm’
>
> Vitalie.

Hi Vitalie:

??MASS::mvrnorm is no different.  This is puzzling.  As you say, 
help("MASS::mvrnorm") doesn't work either.  Is this an R bug?
How does eldoc resolve this properly for args?

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