[ESS] R Help Pages for Masked Objects
Martin Maechler
maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch
Tue Apr 20 15:00:47 CEST 2010
>>>>> "AL" == Alan Lue <alan.lue at gmail.com>
>>>>> on Sun, 18 Apr 2010 08:44:10 -0700 writes:
AL> Hi, I'm using ESS on Emacs 23 in Ubuntu, and I recently
AL> added the "bit" package to my R system:
AL> http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/bit/index.html
AL> `bit' includes a function called `xor', which masks the
AL> `xor' function in base. I can uniquely identify these
AL> objects with `base::xor()' and `bit::xor()', but when I
AL> type C-c C-v for help, a Tcl/Tk menu pops up and prompts
AL> for clarification. Moreover once I select one of the
AL> options (either `base::xor' or `bit::xor'), opening help
AL> for `xor' henceforth defaults to my original selection.
Well, for efficiency reasons, the buffer *help[R](xor)* is
simply reused.
If you want to get the popup menu again for chosing, simply
delete the *help[R](xor)* buffer.
AL> Is there a way to uniquely specify the object I'm
AL> looking for when I use C-c C-v? Specifying `base::xor'
AL> doesn't work, and typing `help(xor, bit)' in the R
AL> interpreter produces output in the interpreter window.
yes.. this is less than optimal, and no, I don't know of a
(quick) solution.
Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich
AL> Alan
AL> -- Alan Lue Master of Financial Engineering UCLA
AL> Anderson School of Management
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