[R] starting html help for a package?

Liviu Andronic landronimirc at gmail.com
Fri Nov 13 11:25:17 CET 2009


On 11/12/09, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca> wrote:
> > > help(package="boot", help_type = "html")
>
>  The page displayed there was never an HTML page.  In the future it probably
> should be, but it hasn't been implemented yet.
>
At the moment is there a way to call the html help for a package, that
is starting in a browser the text displayed by help(package="boot")?


>  It's in the tools package, which you probably hadn't attached.  If you
> followed the advice and used ??, you would have got it.
>
Indeed. I assumed that with 2.10 this was deprecated, but I was wrong.
Liviu




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