[R] Function for displaying arbitrary text as in 'help'.

Nicolás San Martín @mnicol@@ @ending from gm@il@com
Wed Jan 2 19:24:48 CET 2019


Yes, the file.show() is good enough. Thanks

El mié., 2 ene. 2019 a las 13:48, Duncan Murdoch (<murdoch.duncan using gmail.com>)
escribió:

> On 02/01/2019 8:47 a.m., Nicolás San Martín wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am looking for a function that receives some text (any text) and
> displays
> > it to the user in the same way as the 'help' function does. Unlike 'cat',
> > that outputs the text in the current window, the one I'm looking for
> should
> > work as 'help' that, for example, in emacs ess opens a new buffer, in the
> > linux terminar displays it as the more command, etc. Is there any
> function
> > that does this?
> >
>
> The file.show() function will display a text file without all the bells
> and whistles of the help system; maybe it will be good enough.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>

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