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 apropos of little use.
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.
Martin Maechler wrote:
> 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
> Seth> version ignores case when searching.
>
> Seth> If others find this useful, perhaps apropos could be
> Seth> suitably patched (and I'd be willing to create such a
> Seth> patch).
>
> Could you live with typing 'i=T' (i.e. ignore.case=TRUE)?
>
> 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 sensitive.
> Ignoring case is the exception in the S/R/C world, not the rule
>
> I have a patch ready which implements your suggestion
> (but not quite with the code below), but as said, not as
> default.
>
> Martin
>
> Seth> + seth
>
> Seth> Here is my version of apropos:
>
>>> APROPOS <- function (what, where = FALSE, mode = "any")
>>> {
>>> if (!is.character(what))
>>> stop("argument ", sQuote("what"), " must be a character vector")
>>> x <- character(0)
>>> check.mode <- mode != "any"
>>> for (i in seq(search())) {
>>> contents <- ls(pos = i, all.names = TRUE)
>>> found <- grep(what, contents, ignore.case = TRUE, value = TRUE)
>>> if (length(found)) {
>>> if (check.mode) {
>>> found <- found[sapply(found, function(x) {
>>> exists(x, where = i, mode = mode, inherits = FALSE)
>>> })]
>>> }
>>> numFound <- length(found)
>>> x <- c(x, if (where)
>>> structure(found, names = rep.int(i, numFound)) else
>>> found)
>>> }
>>> }
>>> x
>>> }
>
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