Random.Rd

Martin Maechler Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch>
Fri, 26 Jul 2002 19:17:24 +0200


>>>>> "KH" == Kurt Hornik <hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at> writes:

>>>>> ripley  writes:
    BDR> Uwe,
    BDR> The titles are not necessarily intended to be aliases.  units.Rd is
    BDR> another one.  Once upon a time \title automatically generated a \alias,
    BDR> but not for some time (and I've forgotten the reasoning).

    BDR> I think this is confusing, as help.search shows the entry as
    BDR> Random(base) but ?Random does not work.  On the other hand, ?Binomial
    BDR> does work, and there is no object Binomial.  My preference would be to
    BDR> change help.search, I think.

However I think, he (and I) would also want 

  ?Random

to work which needs a change to help() as well {or rather to an
underlying utility common to all of help(), help.search() and
Java searching from the help.start() search interface ?!

    KH> Will be done in the near future.
    KH> -k
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