[Rd] help(PackageName)

Peter Dalgaard BSA
2001-06-12T14:03:20Z

Martin Schlather <Martin.Schlather@uni-bayreuth.de> writes:

> Dear R Core Team,
>
> I'm wondering whether it is useful that every package should allow
> for help(PackageName), giving some general information about the
> package (more/nicer than library(help=PackageName)). This man page
> may include some mathematical or statistical background, or contain
> a guideline for the package.

help(nlme) would be ambiguous then.

help(package=nlme) already works, same as library(help=nlme).

I suppose we could make it a convention to have each package contain
an Overview entry so that help(Overview, package=nlme) would do what
you want (or even help(Overview, nlme) if we switch the arguments
around), but someone would have to write those pages....

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