[Rd] help(PackageName)

Peter Dalgaard BSA p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk
12 Jun 2001 16:03:20 +0200


Martin Schlather <Martin.Schlather@uni-bayreuth.de> writes:

> Dear R Core Team,
> 
> I'm wondering whether it is useful that every package should allow 
> for help(PackageName), giving some general information about the 
> package (more/nicer than library(help=PackageName)). This man page 
> may include some mathematical or statistical background, or contain 
> a guideline for the package.

help(nlme) would be ambiguous then. 

help(package=nlme) already works, same as library(help=nlme). 

I suppose we could make it a convention to have each package contain
an Overview entry so that help(Overview, package=nlme) would do what
you want (or even help(Overview, nlme) if we switch the arguments
around), but someone would have to write those pages....

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