On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, David Brahm wrote: > Neil Osborne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is any one aware of R help documentation that is aranged in functional > > categories for e.g.: > > String manipulation > > File I/O > > Dataframe, List manipulation > > There really oughta be. Several people replied with ways to search the > help, but that assumes you know the specific task you want to perform, > and the right "keyword" to describe it. Beginners often just want to > learn what's available.
Well, as described in your quotation you need to know the `functional categories' and help.start's search page does list the known `functional categories' and will list under each one. So there really IS, not `oughta be', Similarly help.search can list by categories, aka keywords. Perhaps its help page needs to say where the list of standard keywords is. -- 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-help
