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

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 02/01/2019 1:36 p.m., Nicolás San Martín wrote:
> In this case I am not able to store the text in a file, because it could be
> modified at any time and I need to display the most recent version (I fetch
> it from the internet). But I can assume that it is correctly organized for
> displaying.

It is possible to have dynamic content in help pages.  Web pages (e.g. 
generated using R-markdown or Shiny) are even more flexible for content, 
but maybe not meeting your requirement for displaying in an ESS buffer 
or Linux terminal window.

Duncan Murdoch

> 
> El mié., 2 ene. 2019 a las 14:31, Jeff Newmiller (<jdnewmil using dcn.davis.ca.us>)
> escribió:
> 
>> You can probably cobble together something, but spitting large chunks of
>> information at users when the program wants to is bad design. It would be
>> better to make a vignette or help file in a package and put the associated
>> code from which you had been planning to spit out that text.
>>
>> On January 2, 2019 5:47:52 AM PST, "Nicolás San Martín" <
>> smnicolas using gmail.com> 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?
>>>
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