[TxMt] "Show in R help" command (was Re: Command input as a shell variable)

[Alan Schussman]

On Jul 22, 2006, at 11:22 AM, Jonathan Clayden wrote:

> I've updated this command to make it a bit more robust, and to deal
> with a couple of important cases. The first is aliasing, since R help
> pages are grouped into sets of closely related functions. So now if
> you run the script on ".C" you should get "Foreign", etc., like in the
> R app. The second is non-local links: the script will now play nice
> with http/ftp links in R help pages. I've assigned a key equivalent of
> ⌘⌥? -- I don't think this clashes with anything in the source.r
> scope...
>

Neat update, Jon. I especially like that it now finds associated  
functions -- so, for example, asking for help on read.csv loads up  
read.table correctly. That's great.

I went ahead and added it to the R bundle.

Cheers-
-Alan