Enhance the search/help functionality in R with RDocumentation.org, and discover what R packages are most popular.

Installation

To install the package, use devtools:

devtools::install_github("datacamp/Rdocumentation")
library(Rdocumentation)

The package overwrite the basic help functions from the utils package:

• help() : for help about specific topic or packages
• help.search() : for help about fuzzy topics or packages
• ?: shortcut for the two help functions, one questionmark calls help, two calls help.search.

#Features:

• Search through all CRAN, Bioconductor, Github packages and their archives thanks to RDocumentation.

• Browse beautifully formatted and designed help pages.

• Check if you have the latest version of a package and install or update with a single click.

• Run examples with a single click, no more copy/pasting

• Post reviews and help package authors to improve their documentation