
On May 11, 2011, at 4:00 PM, Thomas Roth wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> There's a possibility to put images into documentation files. Have a look at
> the package visualizationTools to see how it works. The original idea is/was
> by Romain Francois as far as i remember.
> 
> For instance have a look at the documentation for the function CLT
> 

Interesting - ?CLT takes forever (about 30s) on a fairly fast machine (8-core Xeon) - every time! That sort of defeats the purpose of help pages ... so whatever it's doing (behind your back - the help in the console still shows no images, obviously), I would not recommend it as it makes the help unusable.

Cheers,
S


> 
> 2011/5/11 Hadley Wickham <hadley@rice.edu>
> 
>>> I’m trying to figure out how to put images into my package’s help
>>> documentation. I’ve gotten to the point where I can put the images in the
>>> /inst/doc/ directory. I have also gotten to the point where I have
>> package
>>> checks without any warnings. I couldn’t find the terms “picture,”
>> “image,”
>>> or “graphic” in a text search within the Writing R Extensions: 2 Writing
>> R
>>> documentation files
>> 
>> I think you're asking the wrong question.  You should be asking: "Can
>> I include images in help files?".  As far as I know, the answer is no.
>> 
>> You might be able to do it for specific output formats.  See
>> http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-exts.html#Conditional-text
>> 
>> Hadley
>> 
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