Hi Gabor,

> library(gdata)
no complaint

> library(help = gdata)
It works.  Thanks

> ?read.xls
I must run ??read.xls

All the topics I tested must use ??topic_name

B.R.
Stephen L




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From: Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck@gmail.com>

Cc: Spencer Graves <spencer.graves@structuremonitoring.com>; r-help 
<r-help@r-project.org>
Sent: Mon, November 29, 2010 1:16:35 PM
Subject: Re: [R] Where is gdata?

On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 12:06 AM, Gabor Grothendieck
<ggrothendieck@gmail.com> wrote:
> Regarding your question about gdata,
>
> 1. if gdata did not get installed then just do this from within R:
>
> install.packages("gdata")
>
> (or use the Packages | Install Package(s) menu to accomplish same).
> If that still does not result in gdata being installed then try a
> different mirror.
>
> 2. there is no gdata() function in the gdata package so your line
> which tries to call it would be expected to return an error even if
> gdata were present.
>

3. If you are not sure whether or not you have gdata installed try:

library(gdata)

If that works (i.e. you get no error message) then you have gdata
installed and you can get help like this:

library(help = gdata)

and for each topic listed you can get help like this:

?read.xls

and so on.

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