[R] ?for

Duncan Murdoch dmurdoch at pair.com
Fri Nov 21 13:08:22 CET 2003


On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 21:37:49 +0100, you wrote:

>Windows 98 with R 1.7.1: ? paste("help") opens help for help in my machine.
>In my linux debian with R 1.8.1 beta it opens the help for paste.
>I am even more puzzled now!, is this system dependent or R-version
>dependent?

Version dependent. This was an intentional change, to allow you to
find the help for an S4 method separately from the generic.  It's
documented in ?help.

Duncan Murdoch




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