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 packageshelp.search()
: for help about fuzzy topics or packages?
: shortcut for the two help functions, one questionmark callshelp
, two callshelp.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