[R] Navigate to Index page of a package from R command prompt

[Gabor Grothendieck]

Try

enter at the R console: help.start()
and then when the help comes up in your browser click on Packages
and then click on the package you want
and then click on the help file you want

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Steven McKinney<smckinney at bccrc.ca> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Is there a way to navigate directly to the "Index" page of help
> for a package?
>
> Here's my connundrum:
>
> I download and install package "foo".
> I don't know what functions are in package "foo",
> so I can't invoke the help for package "foo" via
>> ?someFunction
>
> help(package = "foo")
> pops up some non-hyperlinked information page, not
> package foo's help Index page.
>
> If the package author kindly made a "foo" object or function
> and put that in package "foo", then
>> ?foo
> works and yields a help page for package "foo".
> Now at the bottom of the help page is a hyperlink "Index"
> and I can click that to navigate to the main help Index page
> (the page I really want to get to straight from the R
> command line).
>
> I see that the link to "Index" for package "foo" appears always to be
> (on my Mac)
> file:///Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library/foo/html/00Index.html
>
> e.g.
> file:///Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library/cmprsk/html/00Index.html
>
> file:///Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library/utils/html/00Index.html
>
> Is there a command from the R listener that can take me directly to
> this "00Index.html" page of help for package "foo"?
>
> something like
>> help("00Index", package = "utils")
>
> (but this does not work)?
>
> Any info appreciated
>
> Best
>
> Steven McKinney
>
> Statistician
> Molecular Oncology and Breast Cancer Program
> British Columbia Cancer Research Centre
>
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