Categorizing functions (was: [R] is there a function like %in% for characters?)

Duncan Murdoch murdoch at stats.uwo.ca
Mon Apr 4 14:19:17 CEST 2005


On Sat, 2 Apr 2005 23:00:43 -0500, Terry Mu <muster at gmail.com> wrote :

>thx, that's perfect. I thought of grep(), it also can do this.
>
>I wonder if there is a document or book that explains things
>categorically so it's easy to look up a function.

The HTML help does this:  try help.start(), and look at "search engine
and keywords".  

help.search() also has a keyword argument, but you need to know the
keywords to know what to look for.  ?help.search shows you how to find
them.

Duncan Murdoch




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