What makes you think that is a bug? ?"if" and help("if") work
`An Introduction to R' says For a feature specified by special characters, the argument must be enclosed in double or single quotes, making it a ``character string'': and that is true for a few other examples, as all good books (e.g. MASS) point out. On Tue, 3 Jun 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hello dear [R] experts, > > I use [R] 1.7.0 on Unix and have noticed that I could'nt load the help > of the function "if" with the command > > >?if > + > + > > or the command > > > help(if) > Error: syntax error > > I deeply thank you and congratulate you for all your work, > [R] is a wonderfull programm :-) -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel