You can probably cobble together something, but spitting large chunks of information at users when the program wants to is bad design. It would be better to make a vignette or help file in a package and put the associated code from which you had been planning to spit out that text.
On January 2, 2019 5:47:52 AM PST, "Nicolás San Martín" <smnico...@gmail.com> wrote: >Hi all, > >I am looking for a function that receives some text (any text) and >displays >it to the user in the same way as the 'help' function does. Unlike >'cat', >that outputs the text in the current window, the one I'm looking for >should >work as 'help' that, for example, in emacs ess opens a new buffer, in >the >linux terminar displays it as the more command, etc. Is there any >function >that does this? > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > >______________________________________________ >R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >PLEASE do read the posting guide >http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
