> Seth Falcon writes:
> Kurt Hornik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>> Robert Gentleman writes:
>>
>>> I would also, personally prefer some sort of approximate matching since
>>> there are different ways to spell some words, and some folks abbreviate
>>> parts of words.
>>
>> The same des
Kurt Hornik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Robert Gentleman writes:
>
>> I would also, personally prefer some sort of approximate matching since
>> there are different ways to spell some words, and some folks abbreviate
>> parts of words.
>
> The same design has been employed by help.search
> Robert Gentleman writes:
> I would vastly prefer apropos to be case insensitive by default. The
> point of it is to find things similar to a string, not the same as, and
> given that capitalization in R is somewhat erratic (due to many authors,
> and some of those changing their minds ove
> "Seth" == Seth Falcon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> on Thu, 14 Dec 2006 07:16:30 -0800 writes:
Seth> Martin Maechler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Hi Seth, Could you live with typing 'i=T' (i.e.
>> ignore.case=TRUE)?
Seth> I can live with my ~/.Rprofile, I suppose. :-)
I would vastly prefer apropos to be case insensitive by default. The
point of it is to find things similar to a string, not the same as, and
given that capitalization in R is somewhat erratic (due to many authors,
and some of those changing their minds over the years), I find the
current apropo
Martin Maechler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi Seth,
> Could you live with typing 'i=T' (i.e. ignore.case=TRUE)?
I can live with my ~/.Rprofile, I suppose. :-)
> In principle, I'd like to keep the default as ignore.case=FALSE,
> since we'd really should teach the users that R
> *is* case s
I would second Seth here, because the search is case insensitive but
results are not.
This is not strictly related to the language.
For example, on my shell, the last entries of
apropos system
are
xload(1) - system load average display for X
xlogo(1) - X Window
Hi Seth,
> "Seth" == Seth Falcon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 16:38:02 -0800 writes:
Seth> Hello all, I've had the following apropos alternative
Seth> in my ~/.Rprofile for some time, and have found it
Seth> more useful than the current version. Basically, my
Hello all,
I've had the following apropos alternative in my ~/.Rprofile for some
time, and have found it more useful than the current version.
Basically, my version ignores case when searching.
If others find this useful, perhaps apropos could be suitably patched
(and I'd be willing to create suc
