For the text based help, there is no search feature on Windows, e.g. options(help_type="text"); help(readLines);
but if you use the HTML-based help, you can use the browser's search features as suggested/wanted: options(help_type="html"); help(readLines); /Henrik On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 5:40 PM, hadley wickham <h.wick...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I understand that no one wanted to maintain the old Help, but one feature I >> used extensively -- as a newbie to R or to an unfamiliar package -- was the >> capability of searching for a word or phrase on the Help page itself. >> Ctrl-F/Command-F (Windows/mac) 'differently-phrased-capability' was a fast >> way to find out how to specify the arguments for a function call to >> accommodate a "capability" phrased differently than could be found in the >> author's designed argument list, especially for long and informative Help's. >> If new-Help could easily be enhanced to resurrect that feature, I believe >> many users would appreciate it. Thanks. > > Most browsers offer this feature - it certainly works in safari and > firefox, and I'm sure in internet explorer too. > > Hadley > > -- > http://had.co.nz/ > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
