I don't think help.start is what I'm looking for but I may be doing it wrong.
I tried:
library(tm)
help.start("tm")
This may be inappropriate as it returns:
> library(tm)
> help.start("tm")
Error in if (update) make.packages.html(temp = TRUE) :
argument is not interpretable as logical
Just typing help.start() takes me to a web page but I still have to search.
I wrote a function to do what I want that I could place in my .First() or a
premade package but why bother if there's a way to already do this?
#=============================================================
# FUNCTION
#=============================================================
manual <- function(library){
LIB <- substitute(library)
LIB <- as.character(LIB)
browseURL(paste("http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/",LIB,"/",LIB,".pdf";,
sep = ""))
}
#=============================================================
# EXAMPLES
#=============================================================
manual(plyr)
manual(tm)
> Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:10:51 -0700
> Subject: Re: [R] Opening package manual from within R
> From: gunter.ber...@gene.com
> To: tyler_rin...@hotmail.com
> CC: r-help@r-project.org
>
> After loading the package, does help.start() do what you want?
>
> -- Bert
>
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Tyler Rinker <tyler_rin...@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Simple question but searching rseek did not yield the results I wanted.
> >
> > Question: Is there a way to open a help manual for a package from within R.
> >
> > For instance I would like to type a function in r for the tm package and R
> > would open that PDF as seen here:
> > http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/tm/tm.pdf
> >
> > -The vignette function exists for vignettes [vignette("package.name")] so I
> > assume the same exists for manuals.
> >
> > -I do not want library(help="package.name") as this is not detailed enough.
> >
> > I am running R 2.14.0 beta on a windows 7 machine
> > Reproducible code does not seem appropriate in this case.
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