R includes the tools::Rd2HTML function to convert Rd source files to
HTML for display. RStudio offers previews of Rd pages; presumably they
use those functions. I imagine ESS does the same.
If you want to do it yourself, start with ?tools::Rd2HTML.
There have been changes to the specs over time, but I'd guess current R
could render old Rd pages reasonably well, back to when Prof Ripley and
I wrote Rd2HTML in R 2.9.0. Before that, it was done by a Perl script,
and the Rd syntax had more differences; I think the parser would likely
die on those very old files.
Duncan Murdoch
On 29/06/2023 8:01 p.m., Jeff Newmiller wrote:
Sure. On your computer. Install the old version of R and let it serve the
relevant docs.
Dunno of anyone doing this historical dive online for you though. Why would you
want preformatted docs if you didn't have those old versions installed?
On June 29, 2023 4:23:55 PM PDT, David Hugh-Jones <davidhughjo...@gmail.com>
wrote:
That’s useful to know. But is there anywhere with preformatted HTML pages?
Cheers, D
On Thu, 29 Jun 2023 at 21:46, Ivan Krylov <krylov.r...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, 29 Jun 2023 20:22:47 +0100
David Hugh-Jones <davidhughjo...@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm looking for a source of online help for R base
packages, which covers all versions (for some reasonable value of
"all"). So e.g. the equivalent of `?lm` for R 4.1.0.
These live in the R source tree, under src/library:
https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/src/library/
For the actual releases of R, you may have to go looking at the
branches inside that repository, e.g., the following command:
svn log \
https://svn.r-project.org/R/branches/R-4-1-branch/src/library/stats/man/lm.Rd
...should tell you the history of ?lm until the latest R-4.1-patched.
Do the Git mirrors track these release branches? The branching model of
Subversion [*] is different from the Git model, so perhaps not.
--
Best regards,
Ivan
[*] https://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.branchmerge.using.html
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