Various ways to get help:
help |
-- display the initial help |
help "Macaulay2" |
-- display the top of the documentation tree |
help "matrices" |
-- display an overview of matrices in Macaulay2 |
help X |
-- display the documentation node whose key is X |
help res |
-- documentation for the function res and ways to use it |
help(res, Module) |
-- documentation for the method resolution(Module) |
help Module |
-- documentation for the type Module and methods that take one as input |
help symbol ** |
-- documentation for the operator ** and its various uses and meanings |
help(symbol **, Ring, Ring) |
-- documentation for the method Ring ** Ring |
help[gb, DegreeLimit] |
-- documentation for the optional argument gb(...,DegreeLimit=>...) |
help methods(map, Module) |
-- documentation for various ways to use the function map and a module |
help methods(symbol **, T) |
-- documentation for various ways to use the operator ** and an object of class T |
help methods(X, Y) |
-- documentation for the methods that take an object of class X and an object of class Y |
help apropos "hilbert" |
-- documentation about all functions whose name contains the string hilbert |
help about X |
-- documentation nodes from all installed packages whose keys contain X |
help about(X, Body => true) |
-- documentation nodes from all installed packages whose keys or contents contain X |
The help command is used to display online documentation, as in the following suggestions.
help |
help ideal |
help(ideal, List) |
Some other potential help topics:
help "monomial orderings" |
help "Gröbner bases" |
help "graded and multigraded polynomial rings" |
Use viewHelp to display the corresponding documentation in your web browser.
The source of this document is in Macaulay2Doc/functions/help-doc.m2:69:0.