>>>>> Duncan Murdoch
>>>>> on Fri, 21 Sep 2018 05:02:32 -0400 writes:
> On 21/09/2018 4:54 AM, Sigbert Klinke wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> is it possible to make a link from a vignette to a (Rd)
>> help files in my own or other packages?
> Only with some significant compromises. R normally acts
> as the web server for Rd files, and the URL is not really
> predictable. So you would need to make the URL
> predictable, either by something like
> options(help.ports = 12345)
> (which will put help on port 12345, blocking that port for
> any other use, including help in another R session), or by
> putting a static copy of the help pages on some other web
> server.
> Duncan Murdoch
Yes, and the other way around -- making working links from
package (*.Rmd or *.Rnw) vignettes to help pages of the same
package is also not easily and portably possible AFAICS.
Both would be desirable quite desirable for improved R
documentation and ideally so in a way that could also work with
an internet connection.
[and if we continue this, it may become more of an issue for
'R-devel' instead of 'R-help' ...]
Martin Maechler
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