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

[Jeff Newmiller]

You can probably cobble together something, but spitting large chunks of information at users when the program wants to is bad design. It would be better to make a vignette or help file in a package and put the associated code from which you had been planning to spit out that text.

On January 2, 2019 5:47:52 AM PST, "Nicolás San Martín" <smnicolas using gmail.com> 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?
>
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