
I don't think help.start is what I'm looking for but I may be doing it wrong.  I tried:
 
library(tm)
help.start("tm")
 
This may be inappropriate as it returns:
 
> library(tm)
> help.start("tm")
Error in if (update) make.packages.html(temp = TRUE) : 
  argument is not interpretable as logical
 
Just typing help.start() takes me to a web page but I still have to search.
 
I wrote a function to do what I want that I could place in my  .First() or a premade package but why bother if there's a way to already do this?
#=============================================================
#                                                       FUNCTION
#=============================================================
manual <- function(library){
    
LIB <- substitute(library)
LIB <- as.character(LIB)
browseURL(paste("http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/",LIB,"/",LIB,".pdf", sep = ""))
}
 
#=============================================================
#                                                        EXAMPLES
#=============================================================
manual(plyr)
manual(tm)
 
 

 

> Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:10:51 -0700
> Subject: Re: [R] Opening package manual from within R
> From: gunter.berton@gene.com
> To: tyler_rinker@hotmail.com
> CC: r-help@r-project.org
> 
> After loading the package, does help.start() do what you want?
> 
> -- Bert
> 
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Tyler Rinker <tyler_rinker@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Simple question but searching rseek did not yield the results I wanted.
> >
> > Question:  Is there a way to open a help manual for a package from within R.
> >
> > For instance I would like to type a function in r for the tm package and R would open that PDF as seen here:
> > http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/tm/tm.pdf
> >
> > -The vignette function exists for vignettes [vignette("package.name")] so I assume the same exists for manuals.
> >
> > -I do not want library(help="package.name") as this is not detailed enough.
> >
> > I am running R 2.14.0 beta on a windows 7 machine
> > Reproducible code does not seem appropriate in this case.
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