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

[Rmh]

? is
a. easier
b. my fingers are trained to it
c. consistent over all R interfaces.

Last week I posted to ess-core an outline of how to make ?? work from the *R* buffer.

Rich

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On Jun 27, 2012, at 11:28, Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit at gmail.com> wrote:

>>> 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.
> 
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