Hi Marc, Yes, I load the package via devtools::load_all() before typing ?foo. When I do the same in the R GUI-app I get the expected behaviour: the documentation gets rendered and shown as an html file in the browser.
Best, Haris On Sun, Sep 18, 2022 at 7:29 PM Marc Schwartz <marc_schwa...@me.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Did you type: > > library(mypac) > > first, before trying ?foo? > > The behavior suggests that the package is not currently loaded in the > search path, hence the error. > > When you use ?mypac::foo, that explicitly tells R that you want the help > for the function which is located in mypac and looks for the file there. > Without the package prefix, it only looks in the current search path, and > thus does not find the package there. > > Regards, > > Marc Schwartz > > > On September 18, 2022 at 4:54:05 AM, Haris Fawad via ESS-help ( > ess-help@r-project.org (mailto:ess-help@r-project.org)) wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I get the following error when I try to open the help file on a function > > 'mypac::foo'. > > > > "ess-r-help--build-help-command--unqualified: Can’t find documentation > for > > ‘foo’". > > > > I get the error when I type '?foo', but not when I type '?mypac::foo'. > > Indeed, the file 'man/foo.Rd' exists, after I run 'devtools::document()'. > > > > I don't get the error when I request documentation for a standard > > R-function, such as '?sum'. > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > ESS-help@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ ESS-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/ess-help
