[Rd] RFC: What should ?foo do?

[hadley wickham]

>  Consistent with this idea would be something like the "I feel lucky" search
> on Google, i.e. ?foo would go immediately to the best match, while ??foo
> would present a list of possible matches.  This is not consistent with
> current behaviour, where ?foo will present a list if it matches two or more
> topics, but I think we can always rank one ahead of the other based on their
> ordering in the search list.  I don't know if it will be so easy to rank
> hits coming from help.search(), or from other searches that don't exist yet:
> but maybe it doesn't matter.  If someone doesn't like what they get from
> ?foo, they can always try ??foo.

That seems like a good compromise to me - it's a metaphor familiar to
most people, and corresponds roughly to the current behaviour of help
and help.search.

Hadley

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