On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Dong-hyun Oh wrote: > Dear expeRt, > > I occasionally use help.search() function to find appropriate > functions in R. > Whenever committing help.search() after rerunning R, it takes so much > time to find help (around 2 minutes). > Is there any way to make it faster in help.search()? > I think indexing help database is one of the solution, but i don't
It is already done for each package, at installation. > know how to do. What version of R? This is much faster in recent versions, including R-devel. The latter takes only 3 seconds on my system, with 1500 packages installed. It is likely the problem is reading the package indices on your system, especially if they are on a non-local or slow file system. Note that subsequent queries in the session make use of the already-built database (if relevant). > Best, > Dong-hyun Oh -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
