On 11/14/2007 8:49 AM, Adrian Dusa wrote: > Dear all, > > When creating new functions in a package, there is a "See also" component in > the Rd file. > Usually one uses \link{otherfun}, if the other function is from the same > package, or \link[otherpackage]{otherfun} otherwise. > > The trouble is that I install new packages not in the default R library > folder, but into some other subfolder in my home, so the link searches > for "otherpackage" in my home subfolder. > > Is there a method to create links to functions from the base package, for > example (which is installed by default in the normal library folder)?
I believe this is normally automatic in platforms other than Windows. On Windows, the answer is no. The problem is that in most cases R isn't in charge of the help file viewing. There isn't a good way to make a link from an HTML file to a location that isn't known in advance, for example. On Unix-alikes, the workaround is to build soft links to all the packages in a standard location; but soft links don't work on Windows (and we don't want to get into the almost-undocumented hard links that exist on some Windows file systems). Duncan Murdoch ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel