On Friday 13 January 2006 17:45, Ted Harding wrote: > On 13-Jan-06 Michael Friendly wrote: > > Ted: > > > > Your .xthelp is extremely useful, help on Linux being otherwise > > quite awkward to use since a pager in the same window make it hard > > to cut/paste examples --- where 'more' or 'less' really means > > 'instead of' :-) > > Glad you found it useful. I find it indispensable! > For the record: this is not my code but Roger Bivand's, > it being the one out of several suggestions on that thread > which I decided to adopt. I still admire the neat way he > wrapped it all up. > [...snip...]
I also like the function very much, but I get an annoying error when starting R or when installing a new package: Error in rm(.xthelp) : cannot remove variables from base namespace I assume it has something to do with my bash shell, but I have no idea what to do. I run I inside Kubuntu 5.10 Breezy (compiled from source). > R.Version() $platform [1] "i686-pc-linux-gnu" $arch [1] "i686" $os [1] "linux-gnu" $system [1] "i686, linux-gnu" $status [1] "" $major [1] "2" $minor [1] "2.1" $year [1] "2005" $month [1] "12" $day [1] "20" $"svn rev" [1] "36812" $language [1] "R" Thank you, Adrian -- Adrian DUSA Romanian Social Data Archive 1, Schitu Magureanu Bd 050025 Bucharest sector 5 Romania Tel./Fax: +40 21 3126618 \ +40 21 3120210 / int.101 ______________________________________________ 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