[R] R-code in html help pages: syntax highlighting

[Romain Francois]

Hi Jose,

highlight is fairly easy to use from command line. I have something like 
this when I use R from a console that supports color characters:

highlight <- function( fun ){
  fun <- match.fun( fun )
  tf <- tempfile()
  dump( "fun", tf )
  system( sprintf( "highlight -A -S R %s", tf ) )
  unlink( tf )
}

R> highlight( glm )

Replace "-A" with "-f -H" and you have html output ready for pasting 
into a blog or whatever.

See also ?file for how you might want to send the generated output to 
the clipboard, so that you only have Control + V to type on the web 
browser.

Romain

Jose Quesada wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> A follow up to my previous post. It'd be good to have syntax
> highlighting in the html help pages. There is highlight
> (http://www.andre-simon.de/) which seems to be open source. Since code
> is delimited in the help file format, it should not be too difficult
> to run a highlighting program (actually, vim and emacs do this too)
> recursively and pretty-print all the R examples in the entire CRAN.
> Including the highlighter with R, or whatever supplementary tools
> people use to make R html help files could simplify things. I've never
> written docs or released a package, so I may be understimating the
> effort it'd take to get this working.
>
> Using the r-help gmane archives also leads to plain code.
> This is probably more trouble than it's worth, since there's no
> metadata delimiting a block of code and it might be difficult... but
> grepping through all R-help posts and coloring code would be really
> nice too. Again, this lands straight into 'nice to have, but not
> essential' territory.
>
> If anyone wants to do this, feel free to.
>
> Best,
> - -J
>
> - --
> Jose Quesada, PhD.
> Max Planck Institute,
> Center for Adaptive Behavior and cognition,
> Berlin
> http://www.josequesada.name/           
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