[R] compiled help pages

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 02/05/2009 6:37 PM, Charles Annis, P.E. wrote:
> Greetings:
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> This should be easy but it isn't.
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> I have a home-brew package that works fine, with compiled html help pages,
> all 150 of them.  I want to make a similar package but not from scratch
> since only a half-dozen routines are changed.  So I created a new directory,
> copied the old package into it and changed the name to newSTUFF.  I changed
> the names of all help pages too, as weill as their aliases, and of course I
> changed the DESCRIPTION. Then I executed R CMD build --binary newSTUFF.  The
> package was built, including the compiled help pages, and automatically
> zipped.  I install the package, and then load it and it runs perfectly -
> EXCEPT for the "help(newSTUFF)" command, which gives this error message:
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> No documentation for ' newSTUFF ' in specified packages and libraries:
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> you could try '?? newSTUFF '
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> But when I look at the contents of the ZIP file that R has made, it says the
> newSTUFF compiled help pages are there:
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> newSTUFF/
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> newSTUFF/chtml/
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> newSTUFF/chtml/newSTUFF.chm

? and ?? don't look at filenames, they look at the aliases within the 
file.  I'm guessing from your description that you changed the filename 
but didn't edit the alias to match.
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> What's even more puzzling is that the command: help(package=newSTUFF) DOES
> work, as it should.  Only help(newSTUFF) doesn't.

help(package=newSTUFF) treats "newSTUFF" as a package name.

Duncan Murdoch

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