[R] Using help()

Patrick Burns pburns at pburns.seanet.com
Sun Jan 25 10:31:41 CET 2009


Michael Kubovy wrote:
> Dear R-helpers,
[...]

> (2) If I remember dnorm() and want to be reminded of the call, I also  
> get a list of pages.
>   

It sounds to me like here you want:

args(dnorm)

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> Advice?
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> It seems to me that if the output of help() listed base functions  
> first, it would go a long way toward improving the usefulness of this  
> function.
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