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

[Jeff Newmiller]

Sure. On your computer. Install the old version of R and let it serve the relevant docs.

Dunno of anyone doing this historical dive online for you though. Why would you want preformatted docs if you didn't have those old versions installed?

On June 29, 2023 4:23:55 PM PDT, David Hugh-Jones <davidhughjones using gmail.com> wrote:
>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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