[R] FAQ 7.x when 7 does not exist. Useability question

[John Kane]

--- Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:

> On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, John Kane wrote:
> 
> > The FAQ Section 7 is a very useful place for new
> users
> > to find out any number of R idiosycracies. 
> However
> > there is no numbering on the FAQ Table of Content
> or
> > on the Sections Tables of Contents.
> 
> Hmm, doc/FAQ does have a numbered table of contents
> and numbered sections 

Perhaps we are not talking about the same thing but I
don't see any numbers. My procedure  
- click on FAQ link below documentation, 
- click on R-FAQ link
Result
http://ca.geocities.com/jrkrideau/R/RFAQ.jpg

> and doc/manual/R-FAQ.html does have numbered
sections
 
Click on R-Miscelanea 
Result
http://ca.geocities.com/jrkrideau/R/RFAQ.jpg

The sections themselves are numbered but not the ToC,
at least as displayed in my browser.

Apologies for the poor quality of the screen capture.

As a check, I even found IE and had a look. I am
getting the same display in Firefox and IE so it does
not look like a browser issue.

>and my browser's search finds 7.10 straight away.

As does mine. I just question if this is recommended
as the default approach.  

> 
> > An R-help list reply of "Read FAQ 7.10" in
> response to
> > a question about converting a factor to numeric is
>  a
> > bit cryptic. The only time 7.10 appears is after
> the
> > searcher has found the entry.
> 
> It would help if you told us what you are searching
> that did not contain 
> '7.10'.
> 
> > Would it be a good idea to actually number the
> entries
> > for the FAQ Table of Contents and the Table of
> > Contents for the Sections?
> 
> I think we do.
> 
> -- 
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