[R] R function help arranged in categorical order ?

kjetil@entelnet.bo kjetil at entelnet.bo
Wed Nov 5 22:33:25 CET 2003


On 5 Nov 2003 at 10:24, David Brahm wrote:

> 
> For a few functional categories there are "general" help pages, and you might
> not easily stumble across them.  Here's a list I came up with recently.  Just
> type e.g. "?Arithmetic" at the R prompt to learn about Arithmetic Operators.
> 
> ?Arithmetic
> ?Comparison
> ?Control
> ?DateTimeClasses
> ?Defunct
> ?Deprecated
> ?Devices
> ?Extract     (same as ?Subscript)
> ?Foreign
> ?Logic
> ?Memory
> ?Paren
> ?Rdconv      (RdUtils page: Rdconv, Rd2dvi, Rd2txt, Sd2Rd)
> ?Special     (beta, gamma, choose, ...)
> ?Startup
> ?Syntax
> ?build       (PkgUtils page: R CMD build, R cmd check)
> ?connections (file, pipe, ...)
> ?pi          (Constants page: LETTERS, letters, month.abb, month.name, pi)
> 

Could this list be put easily visible in ome of the places refered at 
startup, like ?help, demo(), or in the first page of 
help.start()
?

Kjetil Halvorsen

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