[R] starting html help for a package?

[Duncan Murdoch]

Liviu Andronic wrote:
> 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")?
>   

If you look at the index page, and if the package author created a 
package man page, you'll find it.  That would give you the same thing as 
package?foo, not the same thing you asked for, which always generates 
package info, never looks it up.

At some point in the future the package?info page will be able to be 
generated automatically, and I imagine it will end up containing the 
package info you saw.   It would make sense for

help(package="boot", help_type = "html")

to give the same result.

Duncan Murdoch

>
>   
>>  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
>