[R] Documentation General Comments

[hadley wickham]

>  Help files with alias or concept or title matching 'data type' using
>  fuzzy matching:
>  character-class(methods)
>                         Classes Corresponding to Basic Data Types
>  sqlTypeInfo(RODBC)      Request Information about DataTypes in an ODBC
>                         Database
>

One small, but concrete improvement to the output from help.search
would be to list the functions like:

methods::character-class
                        Classes Corresponding to Basic Data Types
RODBC::sqlTypeInfo      Request Information about DataTypes in an ODBC
                        Database

and then extend ? to correctly parse (e.g.)  ?methods::character-class
 (although perhaps there a better display would be
methods::"character-class").  This change would make function calling
and accessing documentation a little more consistent.

It would also be useful to list keywords in the help documentation, so
that one could more easily figure out what other documentation might
be related.

Hadley

Hadley

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