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

[Vitalie Spinu]

  >> Rodney Sparapani <rsparapa at mcw.edu>
  >> on Wed, 27 Jun 2012 08:18:04 -0500 wrote:

  > 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?

I guess so. help("foo") should be the same as ?foo, but it is not. We
can try to implement a workaround of course, but I am not sure it's
worth it. C-c C-v should do the job, why would you need "?" in the first
place?

Vitalie.