Wow! I've never come across this approach before. This will keep me reading for a good few days.
Thanks Duncan! -----Original Message----- From: Duncan Murdoch [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 18 March 2019 19:45 To: Jeff Newmiller <[email protected]>; [email protected]; William Sones <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [R] ?grid::grid-package doesn't find the grid-package help page On 18/03/2019 1:00 p.m., Jeff Newmiller wrote: > Try > > ?grid::`grid-package` > > The "-" is not a legal character in a bare symbol. Or package?grid::grid which makes use of the rarely used "type" argument to "?". Duncan Murdoch > > On March 18, 2019 9:35:17 AM PDT, William Sones > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi >> >> I've entered the command "?grid::grid-package" on two computers over >> here and they both direct me to the Arithmetic {base} site >> (http://127.0.0.1:30753/library/base/html/Arithmetic.html). >> >> Shouldn't this command direct me to the grid-package {grid} site >> (something like >> https://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-devel/library/grid/html/grid-package.html)? >> >> This has been performed on R versions 3.5.2 and 3.5.3 (Windows). >> >> I couldn't find mention of this in Bugzilla, so thought it best to >> confirm whether this warrants documentation as a bug, or whether >> alternative methods are preferred for addressing similar (minor) >> issues. >> >> Thanks >> >> Will >> >> William Sones >> Medical Statistician >> >> Email: >> [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> >> Tel: 01865 227887 >> >> Oxford Clinical Trials Research Unit >> Botnar Research Centre >> Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology & Musculoskeletal >> Sciences University of Oxford Windmill Road Oxford, OX3 7LD >> >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> ______________________________________________ >> [email protected] mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide >> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
