sending help request from [ESS[R]]

[A.J. Rossini]

That would be difficult (making it work right).  We've got a reader
(lisp function) sitting between the process and the command line which
can handle that case in an interactive setting, but we'd have to
redirect the eval-region commands also, which while it could be done,
(i.e. conversion of strings/commands to different ones), might be
slower.

best,
-tony




On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 10:01:33 -0400, Liaw, Andy <andy_liaw at merck.com> wrote:
> One of my colleagues found that if one type something like
> 
> ?plot
> 
> in a [ESS[R]] buffer and c-c c-n that to the *R* buffer, one gets the
> following within the *R* buffer:
> 
> plot                package:graphics                R Documentation
> 
> _G_e_n_e_r_i_c _X-_Y _P_l_o_t_t_i_n_g
> 
> _D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:
> 
>      Generic function for plotting of R objects.  For more details
>      about the graphical parameter arguments, see 'par'.
> 
> _U_s_a_g_e:
> 
>      plot(x, y, ...)
> 
> _A_r_g_u_m_e_n_t_s:
> [...]
> 
> Arguably, that shoudn't be done, but it would be nice if it works as if the
> help request was typed in the *R* buffer.
> 
> [This is with ESS 5.2.2 and 5.2.3, R-1.9.1, on WinXPPro with XEmacs 21.4.6
> and 21.4.13.]
> 
> Best,
> Andy
> 
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