[Rd] help command without parenthesis (PR#6447)
ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Tue Jan 20 18:30:37 MET 2004
And where is the bug?
Typing the name of an R object at the console prints the value of the
object. That seems to be what you have, the beginnings of the value of
the function `help'.
Have you read the FAQ about what constitutes a bug? This is the
documented behaviour.
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 mrapa at cs.joensuu.fi wrote:
> Full_Name: Ville Rapa
> Version: R 1.8.1 (2003-11-21)
> OS: linux debian sarge
> Submission from: (NULL) (193.65.112.51)
>
>
> Prints code to the console. To reproduce the problem type help without
> parenthesis. Below is the output of my console.
>
> > help
> function (topic, offline = FALSE, package = .packages(), lib.loc = NULL,
> verbose = getOption("verbose"), try.all.packages =
> getOption("help.try.all.packages"),
> html
and more.
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