[R] bootstrap: boot package

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 01:14:39PM +0000, Mark Myatt wrote:
> Prof Brian D Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> writes:
[..] 
> >It is `surprisingly easy' to re-invent the wheel in R.
> 
> I like that last comment a lot and would like to add my tuppence. It is
> surprisingly easy to re-invent the wheel in R because it is surprisingly
> easy to overlook the existence of functions and, in my case, entire
> libraries of functions that are already there, debugged, and working
> well. I am not sure how to overcome this problem (I understand that it
> is not a problem for you, Prof.) with R. Perhaps there is a
> documentation solution.

IIRC one problem is help.search() on one's computer is "local", it cannot
know about packages which are not installed.  So would it be a) feasible and
b) desirable to create a "meta"-package for nothing but "global"
documentation searches ? One way would be to go online and query Jon Baron's
search engine, another to work offline by searching a db-in-a-file of
keywords stripped from the documentation on a CRAN master [ feeding this
could be automated with Perl scripts ] 

Am I making sense, or do I need more coffee?

Dirk

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