In the Lua language they have put the entire source on the net in such a way that you can easily browse it. Go to:
http://www.lua.org/source/5.0/ to see what I mean. One of the nice things about R is that if you want more info on a function than in the help page you can just type the name of the function at the R prompt and you get its source, at least if it itself was written in R. Methods complicate this a bit but its still relatively easy to get the source. Unfortunately, for someone trying to find out what a function does, the real work may be done in C in which case you come to a dead end. Admittedly its possible to get the source but this requires a bit of work (downloading large files, figuring out rsync) and some hunting around. If the R source were placed on the net in a similar fashion to Lua I think this would make it more accessible and help people help themselves by making it easier to answer many questions themselves that they currently have to go to rhelp for. _______________________________________________ No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. Introducing My Way - http://www.myway.com ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
