[R] Combined variable names

Bjørn-Helge Mevik bhx2 at mevik.net
Thu Dec 2 09:08:39 CET 2004


Peter Dalgaard writes:

> There are irregularities, e.g. the fact that you do help(foo), not
> help("foo"), but they tend to get a pain in the long run (How do you
> get help on a name contained in a variable?

v <- "lm"; help(v)
works for me :-)

(But I totally agree that the regularity of R (or S) is part of what
makes it so much better than for instance Matlab.  At least for me.)

-- 
Bjørn-Helge Mevik




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