On Sep 19, 2013, at 1:48 AM, Kenn Konstabel wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 12:14 PM, Pascal Oettli <kri...@ymail.com> wrote:
>
>> It's a function of package "sos", quite useful to find functions in R.
>>
>>
>> It is interesting to note that neither RSiteSearch("cov2cor") nor
> findFn("cov2cor") seem to be able to find cov2cor (from the stats package!
> so it's there on every machine that has R installed) but find lots of other
> answeres (e.g., cor2cov). It is thus perhaps too simple-minded to assume
> that when I search for foobar, and if there is a function with exactly that
> name, it would appear as the first answer. You can find cov2cor by
> searching for "Correlation, Variance and Covariance (Matrices)" (an
> unlikely search string:).
That's not exactly true. does find the help page on which that function is
described:
http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/library/stats/html/cor.html
It just doesn't list it as the name of the page. And it's buried in a welter of
other potential hits:
findFn("cov2cor")
found 74 matches; retrieving 4 pages
2 3 4
Downloaded 65 links in 37 packages.
--
David Winsemius
Alameda, CA, USA
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