R help - Jan 2010 - href and Rd

Hello *

is possible to have something like the LaTeX \href in Rd ?
\url doesn't fit very well, and I didn't find much about.

I have a long (external to the help system, a www one) url but i
would like it to be "hidden" from a small word with the link.

Please CC me!  ;)

thanks in advance
  Luca

On 27/01/2010 8:36 AM, Luca Braglia wrote:
> Hello *
>
> is possible to have something like the LaTeX \href in Rd ?
> \url doesn't fit very well, and I didn't find much about.
>
> I have a long (external to the help system, a www one) url but i
> would like it to be "hidden" from a small word with the link.
>   

No, \url is the only way to include a link outside the help system, and 
it displays the URL.

If you really don't want to display it, you could use \link to a 
separate help page that contained a \url link, but it would not be very 
convenient.

Duncan Murdoch

One approach would be to use one of the URL shortening services to
define a shorter URL.  The shorter URL would then appear rather than
the long original one (although there would still be a URL shown so
its not quite the functionality you asked for).  For more info google
for: url shortening

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 8:36 AM, Luca Braglia <lbraglia at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hello *
>
> is possible to have something like the LaTeX \href in Rd ?
> \url doesn't fit very well, and I didn't find much about.
>
> I have a long (external to the help system, a www one) url but i
> would like it to be "hidden" from a small word with the link.
>
> Please CC me! ?;)
>
> thanks in advance
> ?Luca
>
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