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

[Vitalie Spinu]

  >> Rodney Sparapani <rsparapa at mcw.edu>
  >> on Wed, 27 Jun 2012 10:48:11 -0500 wrote:

  > On 06/27/2012 10:28 AM, Vitalie Spinu wrote:

  >> >  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.

  > Actually, for me, C-c C-v is the same:

  > No documentation for 'mvrnorm'

  > Does it work for you?

Yes it does. If the library MASS is loaded of course.

I will look into how to make ? and ?? work properly. I incorporated some
improvements on ?? in julia branch 2 months ago. Will revisit it in a
couple of weeks.

I suggest we dedicate a new C-c C-d key for documentation and add things
like ess-apropos, ess-classes, ess-methods as interface to corresponding
R help pages. 

This is how slime does it:

C-c C-d C-a     slime-apropos
C-c C-d C-d     slime-describe-symbol
C-c C-d C-f     slime-describe-function
C-c C-d C-p     slime-apropos-package
C-c C-d C-z     slime-apropos-all
C-c C-d #       common-lisp-hyperspec-lookup-reader-macro
C-c C-d a       slime-apropos
C-c C-d d       slime-describe-symbol
C-c C-d f       slime-describe-function
C-c C-d h       slime-documentation-lookup
C-c C-d p       slime-apropos-package
C-c C-d z       slime-apropos-all
C-c C-d ~       common-lisp-hyperspec-format
C-c C-d C-#     common-lisp-hyperspec-lookup-reader-macro
C-c C-d C-~     common-lisp-hyperspec-format

Best, 
Vitalie.