The "help" facility is applicable to functions and data sets. It is not
designed
or intended to give "help" with respect to R syntax (with the exception of
the basic syntax of the operators --- unary and binary --- and the
associated
rules of precedence).
cheers,
Rolf Turner
On 01/18/2013 09:17 AM, Steve Taylor wrote:
The ellipsis object is not listed in the base help pages!
help(`+`) # this works - help on arithmetic operators
help("+") # also works
help(`...`) # fails with Error: '...' used in an incorrect context
help("...") # fails also with No documentation for '...' in specified packages
and libraries: you could try '??...'
-----Original Message-----
From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On
Behalf Of Ivan Calandra
Sent: Friday, 18 January 2013 4:43a
To: R. Michael Weylandt
Cc: R list
Subject: Re: [R] how to use "..."
Do you know where I can find some documentation about it?
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