utils (version 3.1.0)

RShowDoc: Show R Manuals and Other Documentation

Description

Utility function to find and display R documentation.

Usage

RShowDoc(what, type = c("pdf", "html", "txt"), package)

Arguments

what
a character string: see ‘Details’.
type
an optional character string giving the preferred format.
package
an optional character string specifying the name of a package within which to look for documentation.

Value

A invisible character string given the path to the file found.

Details

what can specify one of several different sources of documentation, including the R manuals (R-admin, R-data, R-exts, R-intro, R-ints, R-lang), NEWS, COPYING (the GPL licence), any of the licenses in ‘share/licenses’, FAQ (also available as R-FAQ), and the files in ‘R_HOME/doc’.

Only on Windows, the R for Windows FAQ is specified by rw-FAQ.

If package is supplied, documentation is looked for in the ‘doc’ and top-level directories of an installed package of that name.

If what is missing a brief usage message is printed.

The documentation types are tried in turn starting with the first specified in type (or "pdf" if none is specified).