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

Installation

To install the package, use devtools:

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

The package overwrites 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

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Install

install.packages('RDocumentation')

Monthly Downloads

71

Version

0.5

License

GPL (>= 2)

Maintainer

Ludovic Vannoorenberghe

Last Published

April 11th, 2018

Functions in RDocumentation (0.5)

hideViewer

Redirects the viewer to the RDocumentation help page.
RDocumentation-package

Integrate R with RDocumentation.org
rdocs_url

Return the url for RDocumentation
check_package

Check if a package is installed for the user.
install_package

Installs the given package
makeDefault

Makes the RDocumentation package the default help-package.
help.search

Search the Help System on RDocumentation or local if offline
help

Documentation on RDocumentation or via the normal help system if offline