[R] Online R documentation

Duncan Murdoch murdoch at stats.uwo.ca
Sat Jan 9 19:01:31 CET 2010


On 09/01/2010 12:48 PM, Dieter Menne wrote:
> 
> Karl Ove Hufthammer wrote:
>> In case anybody is looking for ideas in how to improve the above 
>> site, inclusion of rendered example graphs, similar to the ones at 
>> "http://www.metaresearch.de/exlib/", would be nice.
>>
> 
> If the format you use on your site were  accepted as the standard in R, this
> would be a great step forward in improving the dinosaur.
> 
> I prefer to have help locally, though, because I would like to have the
> first search restricted to the packages I have installed, to avoid being
> drowned by 2000 packages I never need.

Including graphical output in the man pages is one of the eventual goals 
of the new help system.  I doubt it will make it into 2.11.x, but it 
will probably be there in 2.12.x.

Duncan Murdoch



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