Double the question mark as in:
??allequal
Uwe Ligges
Steve Jaffe wrote:
The situation is that I know there is a function and know approximately what
the name is, and want to find the exact name. Is there a way of searching
for near-matches (similar to unix apropos). For example, I know
The situation is that I know there is a function and know approximately what
the name is, and want to find the exact name. Is there a way of searching
for near-matches (similar to unix apropos). For example, I know there is a
function called something like allequal (or allequals or AllEquals
Steve Jaffe wrote:
The situation is that I know there is a function and know approximately what
the name is, and want to find the exact name. Is there a way of searching
for near-matches (similar to unix apropos). For example, I know there is a
function called something like allequal (or
?help.search
help.search(allequal)
help.search(apropos=allequal)
??allequal
On 17/06/09 18:12, Steve Jaffe wrote:
The situation is that I know there is a function and know approximately what
the name is, and want to find the exact name. Is there a way of searching
for near-matches (similar to
On 17/06/09 18:20, baptiste auguie wrote:
??Allequal
gets me there, admittedly not as cleverly as google would do if I
failed to spell it correctly, for instance.
??Allepual
No help files found matching ‘Allepual’ using fuzzy matching
But it *almost* gets you there; try
help.search -- excellent
I'm a bit confused though -- doc seems to say that ??pattern is same as
help.search(pattern) but it doesn't work that way for me...I'd been trying
?? for some time without success.
For example,
??allequal #returns
No documentation for '?allequal' in specified packages
On Jun 17, 2009, at 1:31 PM, Steve Jaffe wrote:
help.search -- excellent
I'm a bit confused though -- doc seems to say that ??pattern is same
as
help.search(pattern) but it doesn't work that way for me...I'd been
trying
?? for some time without success.
I thought the docs on this
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