> Consistent with this idea would be something like the "I feel lucky" search > on Google, i.e. ?foo would go immediately to the best match, while ??foo > would present a list of possible matches. This is not consistent with > current behaviour, where ?foo will present a list if it matches two or more > topics, but I think we can always rank one ahead of the other based on their > ordering in the search list. I don't know if it will be so easy to rank > hits coming from help.search(), or from other searches that don't exist yet: > but maybe it doesn't matter. If someone doesn't like what they get from > ?foo, they can always try ??foo.
That seems like a good compromise to me - it's a metaphor familiar to most people, and corresponds roughly to the current behaviour of help and help.search. Hadley -- http://had.co.nz/ ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
