library path in Rd link
On Wednesday 14 November 2007, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
On 11/14/2007 8:49 AM, Adrian Dusa wrote:
[...] Is there a method to create links to functions from the base package, for example (which is installed by default in the normal library folder)?
I believe this is normally automatic in platforms other than Windows. On Windows, the answer is no.
This is what I thought, too. But if I link for example to function anova() in pacakge stats, the html link after installing the new package is: file:///home/adi/myRlibrary/stats/html/anova.html where the stats package is by default installed in: /usr/lib/R/library/ (indeed my question was related to Windows too, not only on Linux)
The problem is that in most cases R isn't in charge of the help file viewing. There isn't a good way to make a link from an HTML file to a location that isn't known in advance, for example. On Unix-alikes, the workaround is to build soft links to all the packages in a standard location; but soft links don't work on Windows (and we don't want to get into the almost-undocumented hard links that exist on some Windows file systems).
I understand, thank you. I learned from Prof. Ripley's answer that Windows has link.html.help() function to resolve the html help files from all installed packages. Best wishes, Adrian
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