[R-pkg-devel] Public URLs for help for versions of base packages

[David Hugh-Jones]

That’s useful to know. But is there anywhere with preformatted HTML pages?

Cheers, D

On Thu, 29 Jun 2023 at 21:46, Ivan Krylov <krylov.r00t using gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 29 Jun 2023 20:22:47 +0100
> David Hugh-Jones <davidhughjones using gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I'm looking for a source of online help for R base
> > packages, which covers all versions (for some reasonable value of
> > "all"). So e.g. the equivalent of `?lm` for R 4.1.0.
>
> These live in the R source tree, under src/library:
> https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/src/library/
>
> For the actual releases of R, you may have to go looking at the
> branches inside that repository, e.g., the following command:
>
> svn log \
>
> https://svn.r-project.org/R/branches/R-4-1-branch/src/library/stats/man/lm.Rd
>
> ...should tell you the history of ?lm until the latest R-4.1-patched.
>
> Do the Git mirrors track these release branches? The branching model of
> Subversion [*] is different from the Git model, so perhaps not.
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Ivan
>
> [*] https://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.branchmerge.using.html
>
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