[R] Access to R help database

Uwe Ligges ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de
Tue Jul 20 23:00:28 CEST 2010


Sigbert,

for a first idea see Duncan Murdoch's article about the new help system 
in one of the last issues.

Best,
Uwe


On 19.07.2010 20:16, Sigbert Klinke wrote:
> Hi,
>
> from the documentation of help.search I think that fields like "concept"
> and "keywords" in the R help database exists. How can I access them from R?
>
> If I do
>
>> help<-help.search("blabla")
>> colnames(help$matches)
> [1] "topic"   "title"   "Package" "LibPath"
>
> then I get back only back these 4 fields.
>
> Thanks Sigbert
>
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