Thanks Z, it's coming more into focus. I don't know what would work, though maybe it's not impossible to have a richer set of cross-references by interest area--e.g. People interested in econometrics may wish to examine.... The views help in this regard, tho something in help itself would be handy.
Peter On 1/5/06 2:52 PM, "Achim Zeileis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Peter: > >> If R wants to bring in a wider audience, one thing that might help is a >> denser set of cross-references. For example, perhaps lm's help should >> mention the econometrics view materials as well as other places to look for >> tests and procedures people may want to do w/ lm. Another thought is that > > This is difficult because the core development team has to ensure a > certain stability of the system and you wouldn't start cross-linking to > potentially unstable contributed packages. Furthermore, what is obvious to > you (or me) as further desired functionality for linear models might be > completely counter-intuitive for someone in genomics or biostatistics or > environmetrics or ... and you can't link to all of these without confusing > everybody. > >> perhaps the standard R package help should allow people to find >> non-installed but commonly used contributed packages and perhaps their help >> page contents. A feature that would be very helpful for me is the capacity >> to search all the contents of help files, not just keywords that at times >> seem to miss what I'm trying to find. > > This is surely desirable but unfortunately not that simple to implement, > you'll find some discussion in the list archives about this. However, > there are various very helpful search facilites like RSiteSearch(). > > Best, ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html