Dear Friends, Thanks to Rolf Turner, Brian Ripley and Patrick Burns for their answers.They don't quite resolve the problem, which I now realize is due to non-standard behavior of JGR, at least on my machine (I verified that Mac GUI works entirely as expected):
**** My installation******************** Running the JGR GUI: > sessionInfo() R version 2.8.1 (2008-12-22) i386-apple-darwin8.11.1 locale: C/C/en_US/C/C/C attached base packages: [1] grid stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods [8] base other attached packages: [1] JGR_1.6-2 iplots_1.1-2 JavaGD_0.5-2 rJava_0.6-1 [5] MASS_7.2-45 lattice_0.17-20 loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] tools_2.8.1 ********What happens with "?" and "??" ************** If I type "?normal" I get the long list, not "No documentation found." When I type "?plot" I get the help page for plot {JM}, and not plot.default {graphics}; when I type ?dnorm I get a rather long list of help pages. If I type "??normal" I get ?normal.htm .com.symantec.APSock .com.symantec.aptmp .DM_1039:1232634821l:DlnIrq .DM_11869:1232818209l:m4AGyL .DM_13345:1232655220l:C1js39 .DM_14309:1232822090l:e6wvqw .DM_15688:1232659145l:ffZvPg .DM_16640:1232825979l:n5TrAz .DM_18040:1232662823l:Gb81yX ******** Another JGR problem ************** Help pages for newly installed packages are accessible only after JGR is restarted. Thanks, MK On Jan 24, 2009, at 8:54 PM, Rolf Turner wrote: > > On 25/01/2009, at 2:33 PM, Michael Kubovy wrote: > >> >> (1) If I type ?normal because I forgot the name dnorm() I get a long >> list of relevant pages. Getting to right page is laborious. >> >> (2) If I remember dnorm() and want to be reminded of the call, I also >> get a list of pages. >> >> > > > If you type ``?normal'' you get a ``No documentation found'' message. > > If you type ``??normal'' you indeed get a long list of pages, some of > which might be relevant. (If you want help on ``dnorm'' then the > relevant > page is stats::Normal. And then typing ``?Normal'' gets you what you > want. Which is somewhat on the obscure side of obvious, IMHO.) > > If you type ``?dnorm'' then you get exactly what you want immediately. > Exactly? Well, there's also info on pnorm, qnorm, and rnorm, but I > expect you can live with that. > > > Rolf Turner [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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