[R-pkg-devel] File link does not exist : how to get the correct one?

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 18/05/2018 11:29 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> On 18/05/2018 11:06 AM, Joris Meys wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> The latest changes in R cause a lot of Rd warnings about file links that
>> don't exist and are treated as a topic. One example is
>>
>> \code{\link[stats]{fitted}}
>>
>> Now if I look at ?fitted , the name of the page (top left corner) is given
>> as "fitted". So I would expect that the code above should just work fine,
>> but it generates the warning.
>>
>> How can one get these names without having to browse through the directory
>> with html files?
> 
> You could ask for HTML help on fitted, but don't use the class print method:

Sorry, forgot to edit that out:  it doesn't need to be HTML help, any 
format would do.

Duncan Murdoch

> 
>   > unclass(?fitted)
> [1]
> "/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.4/Resources/library/stats/help/fitted.values"
> attr(,"call")
> help(topic = "fitted", package = NULL)
> attr(,"topic")
> [1] "fitted"
> attr(,"tried_all_packages")
> [1] FALSE
> attr(,"type")
> [1] "html"
> 
> The first line says that the name should be "fitted.values".
> 
> Duncan Murdoch
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