[R] Function for displaying arbitrary text as in 'help'.

Duncan Murdoch murdoch@dunc@n @ending from gm@il@com
Wed Jan 2 17:44:42 CET 2019


On 02/01/2019 8:47 a.m., Nicolás San Martín wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am looking for a function that receives some text (any text) and displays
> it to the user in the same way as the 'help' function does. Unlike 'cat',
> that outputs the text in the current window, the one I'm looking for should
> work as 'help' that, for example, in emacs ess opens a new buffer, in the
> linux terminar displays it as the more command, etc. Is there any function
> that does this?

Help is printed by the function

  utils:::print.help_files_with_topic

which is quite a long function because of all the possible ways to 
display help.  You might be able to adapt it to your own needs, though 
it won't be trivial.

Duncan Murdoch



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