On 01/04/06 11:04, Franois Pinard wrote: > I'm in the process of learning R. While tutorials are undoubtedly very > useful, and understanding that working and studying methods vary between > individuals, what I (for one) would like to have is a fairly complete > reference manual to the library. > > Of course, we already have one, and that's marvellous already. Yet, it > is organised by library and, within each library, by function name: this > organisation means that the manual is mainly used as a reference, or > else, that it ought to be studied from cover to cover, dauntingly.
I think that many search facilities are helpful here: 1. help.search() searches all libraries on your computer by default. 2. RSiteSearch() has an option of searching all functions in all existing packages, in case you don't have a package and turn out to need it: RSiteSearch([topic],restrict="functions") I doubt that the sort of manual you describe is possible given the very rapid growth of CRAN, and it would be really inadequate if it did not include those packages. Many of them are designed for people in particular fields and turn out to be extremely useful. Jon -- Jonathan Baron, Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania Home page: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~baron ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
