[R] searching help for partial matches

Uwe Ligges ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de
Fri Jun 19 18:26:26 CEST 2009


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 there is a
> function called something like allequal (or allequals or AllEquals or...).
> But ?allequal, etc, return nothing, only if I remember the name can I get
> help via ?all.equal. 
> 
> Thanks




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