[R-SIG-Mac] Raising the Index page for a package in Mac R Help window

[Steven McKinney]

Thank you Gerald,

This works very well.  I hadn't seen this
feature as I've been managing packages at the
command line or from a shell.

"Packages and Data" - "Package Manager" raises
the R Package Manager gui, which has two panels
(you might not see one of them if the slider
is fully at the top or bottom of the window)
Selecting a package in the top panel invokes
the Index page of help for the selected package,
close enough to what I was looking for.

The feature I enquired about is already in place,
thanks to Simon Urbanek and the others who have
done such a great job with the Mac R.app

-----Original Message-----
From: Gerald Jurasinski [mailto:gerald.jurasinski at uni-rostock.de]
Sent: Fri 10/5/2007 7:27 AM
To: Steven McKinney
Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Raising the Index page for a package in Mac R Help	window
 
Steven,

You could use the GUI feature "Packages and Data" (could be a  
slightly different naming, but i only have a german interface). When  
you choose the menu item Package Management you can choose packages  
to load. In the moment you check the box for a package the index page  
appears in the lower panel of the window.. You may have to open the  
lower panel by dragging the slider..

Your approach works if the package maintainer has prepared it..

Best regards
gerald
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Institute for Management of Rural Areas
Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
University of Rostock
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18059 Rostock
Germany

gerald.jurasinski at uni-rostock.de
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Am 03.10.2007 um 22:24 schrieb Steven McKinney:

> Hi all,
>
> Is it possible to raise the "Index" page
> for a given package, in the Apple R GUI
> R Help window (not the HTML - web browser
> help interface)?
>
> For example, if I load library(lme4)
> I'd like to be able to raise the lme4
> Index page in the R Help window that
> accompanies the R GUI window on the Mac.
>
> Currently I have to know the name of a function,
> say "lmer", or find the name of a package function by
> looking through the list of functions (typically in
> position 2 on the search path after loading a library),
> then
>
>> ?lmer
>
> raises the lmer help page, and I scroll to the
> bottom where I see
>
> [Package lme4 version 0.99875-7 Index]
>
> and I click on the "Index" hyperlink.
>
>
> It would be great to be able to enter
>
>> ?lme4
>
> and go straight to the lme4 help Index page.
>
> Is this possible?  (I haven't found this in any documentation.)
>
> If not, could I put in a request
> for this feature?
>
>
>
>
> Steven McKinney
>
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>
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