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Spotlight Queries Of R Documentation

04.10.2006

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        // from http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.r.mac/642
// Use Spotlight to query R documentation

spotlight<-function(word) {
place<-paste(Sys.getenv("R_HOME"),"/library/",sep="")
string<-paste("mdfind -onlyin",place,word,"|",getOption("pager"))
system(string, intern=TRUE)
}

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