Hi, Martin Maechler told me that the following is an ESS and not an R-problem, which can be solved (inside ESS) by
C-u C-h C-v sammon Outside ESS, the problem does not occur (which I had not tried out before). Thanks, Christian On Fri, 16 Apr 2004, Christian Hennig wrote: > Hi list, > > not really a problem to solve but a strange unwanted behavior (at least I > do not like it): > > I'm loading > library(multiv) > to use sammon. > Later I load > library(MASS) > which tells me that sammon is masked now, because > there is also a MASS version of sammon. > > Since I believe that the MASS version is at least as good as the multiv > version, I would also use the MASS version, but > help(sammon) > still gives the help page for multiv's sammon. > The MASS version runs, though (and gives an error if I call it like I > would call the multiv version with dimension called p instead of k). > > Is it a general behavior that if a function is masked, the help page still > is the old one? > > That would not be too user friendly... > > Best, > Christian > > > version > _ > platform i686-pc-linux-gnu > arch i686 > os linux-gnu > system i686, linux-gnu > status > major 1 > minor 8.0 > year 2003 > month 10 > day 08 > language R > > > *********************************************************************** > Christian Hennig > Fachbereich Mathematik-SPST/ZMS, Universitaet Hamburg > [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.math.uni-hamburg.de/home/hennig/ > ####################################################################### > ich empfehle www.boag-online.de > > ______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > *********************************************************************** Christian Hennig Fachbereich Mathematik-SPST/ZMS, Universitaet Hamburg [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.math.uni-hamburg.de/home/hennig/ ####################################################################### ich empfehle www.boag-online.de ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
