[R] searching help for partial matches

baptiste auguie baptiste.auguie at gmail.com
Wed Jun 17 19:20:26 CEST 2009


Steve Jaffe wrote:
> The situation is that I know there is a function and know approximately what
> the name is, and want to find the exact name. Is there a way of searching
> for near-matches (similar to unix apropos). For example, I know there is a
> function called something like allequal (or allequals or AllEquals or...).
> But ?allequal, etc, return nothing, only if I remember the name can I get
> help via ?all.equal. 
>
> Thanks
>   
??Allequal

gets me there, admittedly not as cleverly as google would do if I failed 
to spell it correctly, for instance.

??Allepual
No help files found matching ‘Allepual’ using fuzzy matching

HTHH,

baptiste




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