[R] how to use "..."

[John Sorkin]

Rolf
Perhaps the philosophy of the help system needs to change . . .
John

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On Jan 17, 2013, at 7:11 PM, "Rolf Turner <rolf.turner at xtra.co.nz>" <rolf.turner at xtra.co.nz> wrote:

> 
> 
> The "help" facility is applicable to functions and data sets.  It is not 
> designed
> or intended to give "help" with respect to R syntax (with the exception of
> the basic syntax of the operators --- unary and binary --- and the 
> associated
> rules of precedence).
> 
>     cheers,
> 
>         Rolf Turner
> 
> On 01/18/2013 09:17 AM, Steve Taylor wrote:
>> The ellipsis object is not listed in the base help pages!
>> 
>> help(`+`) # this works - help on arithmetic operators
>> help("+") # also works
>> help(`...`) # fails with Error: '...' used in an incorrect context
>> help("...") # fails also with No documentation for '...' in specified packages and libraries: you could try '??...'
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Ivan Calandra
>> Sent: Friday, 18 January 2013 4:43a
>> To: R. Michael Weylandt
>> Cc: R list
>> Subject: =?utf-8?B?UmU6IFtSXSBob3cgdG8gdXNlICIuLi4i==?>> 
>> Do you know where I can find some documentation about it?
> 
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