R devel - Nov 2009 - Link to pdf documentation from other package ?

Dear developeRs,

I have not found anything recent about how to link to a vignette or other
documentation from within Rd-files. Is this now possible with the new help
system ? For example, I would like to link to the file AlgDesign.pdf
provided within the doc directory of package AlgDesign.

Thanks for any suggestions,
regards, Ulrike 
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Ulrike Groemping wrote:
> Dear developeRs,
>
> I have not found anything recent about how to link to a vignette or other
> documentation from within Rd-files. Is this now possible with the new help
> system ? For example, I would like to link to the file AlgDesign.pdf
> provided within the doc directory of package AlgDesign.
>
>   
Yes, you can do it with a \url{} macro.  Use a relative link, acting as 
though the starting page is located in /library/AlgDesign/html/*.  So 
\url{../doc/AlgDesign.pdf}
should work from the same package, 
\url{../../AlgDesign/doc/AlgDesign.pdf} from elsewhere.  Please let me 
know if this doesn't work, I haven't tested.

Duncan Murdoch
> Thanks for any suggestions,
> regards, Ulrike 
>