On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 14:27, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > Well ^C or ESC (on Windows GUI) is the answer I would give. > > On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Ray Brownrigg wrote: > > > Peter Dalgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > You have typed a syntactically incomplete statement: this is explained in > > > > ?help. > > > > > > > > Hint: ?"for" and help("for") work. > > > > > > [Original question added back in: > > > On Sun, 16 Nov 2003, Angel wrote: > > > > > > > I have always been intrigued by why ?for (or ?if,?while,etc) leave R > > > > wanting for more: > > > > > ?for > > > > + > > > > I know the help for these is in ?Control, but I sometimes make the > > > > mistake of typing ?for instead. What is R expecting me to say to finish > > > > the statement? > > > ] > > > Further hint: ? is an operator, syntactically similar to + and -. You > > > can apply operators to the result of a for loop. Consider for example > > > > > > x <- 1; - for (i in 1:10) x <- x * i > > > > > > (? has special semantics, but that is not noticed at parse time). > > > > > Unfortunately the original question still hasn't been answered > > explicitly, not even in ?help. > > Try: > > > ?for > > + (i in 0) 0 > > or: > > > ?if > > + (T) T > > or: > > > ?+ > > + 0 > > > > So you have to provide the rest of a syntactically complete statement. > > > > Just to see if you now understand exactly how ? works, what do you > > think: > > ? paste("help") > > will do? > > > > Ray Brownrigg
R 1.8.1 Beta using gnome-terminal on Fedora Core 1 gives: > ? paste("help") help() for paste is shown in browser /usr/bin/mozilla ... Use help( paste , htmlhelp=FALSE) or options(htmlhelp = FALSE) to revert. However, using ESS with emacs on the same platform gives: > ? paste("help") Error in help("paste(", htmlhelp = FALSE) : No documentation for 'paste(' in specified packages and libraries: you could try 'help.search("paste(")' :-) Marc ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help