[R] Help on getting help from manuals

[Uwe Ligges]

On 13.03.2010 10:56, (Ted Harding) wrote:
> On 13-Mar-10 08:59:43, Jim Lemon wrote:
>> On 03/12/2010 08:41 PM, ManInMoon wrote:
>>> [...]
>> [...]
>> The terminology problem can often be solved on Jon Baron's search
>> engine, as it searches full text, not just keywords. Run a few of the
>> terms familiar to you into it, and you will find that the most amazing
>> things appear.
>>
>> Jim
>
> Indeed. Being tempted to put Jim's suggestion to the test, I chose
> (somewhat arbitrarily) a familiar term: "garden"; and entered this
> into the search engine (with all search options checked).
>
> Up came a somewhat surprising total of 73 hits, on everything from
> "Delete Columns with zeros" to "random uniform sample of points on
> an ellipsoid", and including one that I had forgotten about:
>
>    http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02/archive/55962.html
>
> Which reminds me: Uwe, how did your request for assistance work out?

Ted,

R-help turned out to be the perfect dating platform: I am married since 
last year. ;-)

Uwe



> Ted.
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