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

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 18/05/2018 11:37 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> 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.

And this should be my last message on the topic:  a nicer solution is 
simply to use basename():

 > basename(?fitted)
[1] "fitted.values"

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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