[Rd] section needed in FAQ - Using R (PR#9698)

[John Fox]

Dear Peter and Ray,

I think that Ray's problem finding apropos is that "apropos" has one "p."
Interestingly, help.search("appropos") (as suggested by Peter) is able to
accommodate the spelling error.

Regards,
 John

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Department of Sociology
McMaster University
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-devel-bounces at r-project.org 
> [mailto:r-devel-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Peter Dalgaard
> Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 3:15 AM
> To: ray at ganymede.org
> Cc: R-bugs at biostat.ku.dk; r-devel at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [Rd] section needed in FAQ - Using R (PR#9698)
> 
> ray at ganymede.org wrote:
> > By the way, the R program itself is really badly in need of an 
> > "appropos()" to go alongside "help()". Perhaps "help()" can 
> be renamed 
> > to "hunt()" or "huntAndPeck()".
> >
> >   
> help.search("appropos")
> 
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