hyperlinks to other packages in .Rd files
On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, John Fox wrote:
Dear list members,
I've been working on an R package, which I just checked and built with the
new tools in the Windows version of R 1.2.0. (These tools are wonderful, by
the way.) Everything went fine, except that cross-references that I tried
to create to help pages in other packages don't work.
Page 14 of Writing R Extensions says:
"There are optional arguments specified as \link[pkg]{foo} and
\link[pkg:bar]{foo} to link to the package pkg with topic (file?) foo and
bar respectively."
I thought that I understood this passage (with the exception of the
parenthetical question, which is in the original text), but, for example,
\link[base]{hist} fails to create a link to the documentation for hist in
the base package.
I've screwed around with this for a while with no success. Any help would
be appreciated.
Remember you are on Windows, and there links only work for packages installed in the main library directory (point 3.3 of the rw-FAQ). I think you will find the links do work, once you install there. They do for me.
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