[R] Rd installation (not markup language) primer?

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 03/11/2010 6:28 PM, ivo welch wrote:
> I have a set of functions that I always load on startup.  for example,
> there is my now infamous "is.defined()" function.
>
> I would like to add some documentation for these functions, so that I can do a
>
>     ?is.defined
>
> inside R.  The documentation tells me how to mark up Rd files is very
> good, but I wonder how one installs them for access by the R
> executable (on OSX for me).  Do I drop them into a special directory?
> Which ones are allowed?  Do I need to package everything into a
> library, or can I just add Rd files for source'd files?  Do I parse
> the Rd files for R, or does R parse the Rd files on demand?
>
> so, is there a primer on installing Rd files?

Writing R Extensions is the main documentation.  You put them in the man 
directory of a package, and R does the rest when you install the package.

Duncan Murdoch

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