On 24.02.2010 21:34, Peter Danenberg wrote:
I'm trying to diagnose a bizarre problem in which the help files
invoked from R are partially defective. help(), for instance, is
missing the Description, Arguments and See Also sections; as are help
files for other commands (see below).
Peter, I just tried ?help with R-2.10.1 on 2 Windows and 2 Linux
flavours. All of them had correct help pages. Looks like something is
broken on your OS (unreported).
This seems to be plain text help, right?
Does the html version give the same result?
Best wishes,
Uwe
I've built 2.8.1, 2.10.1 and HEAD with the same results; do I need to
set an environment or configuration variable?
help package:utils R Documentation
Documentation
Description:
Usage:
help(topic, package = NULL, lib.loc = NULL,
verbose = getOption("verbose"),
try.all.packages = getOption("help.try.all.packages"),
help_type = getOption("help_type"))
Arguments:
Details:
The following types of help are available:
* Plain text help
Offline help:
Note:
References:
Becker, R. A., Chambers, J. M. and Wilks, A. R. (1988) _The New S
Language_. Wadsworth& Brooks/Cole.
See Also:
Examples:
help()
help(help) # the same
help(lapply)
help("for") # or ?"for", but quotes/backticks are
needed
help(package="splines") # get help even when package is not
loaded
topi<- "women"
help(topi)
try(help("bs", try.all.packages=FALSE)) # reports not found (an
error)
help("bs", try.all.packages=TRUE) # reports can be found
# in package 'splines'
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