On Wed, 14 Nov 2007, Adrian Dusa wrote: > > Dear all, > > When creating new functions in a package, there is a "See also" component in > the Rd file. > Usually one uses \link{otherfun}, if the other function is from the same > package, or \link[otherpackage]{otherfun} otherwise.
I think you have misread the manual here: There are two other forms of optional argument specified as \link[pkg]{foo} and \link[pkg:bar]{foo} to link to the package pkg, to files foo.html and bar.html respectively. These are rarely needed, perhaps to refer to not-yet-installed packages (but there the HTML help system will resolve the link at run time) or in the normally undesirable event that more than one package offers help on a topic (in which case the present package has precedence so this is only needed to refer to other packages) Note: 'rarely needed'. > The trouble is that I install new packages not in the default R library > folder, but into some other subfolder in my home, so the link searches > for "otherpackage" in my home subfolder. > > Is there a method to create links to functions from the base package, for > example (which is installed by default in the normal library folder)? What OS is this? (As I recall you used Linux last time you posted.) In any case, on all OSes you will be able to do cross-library links to the base package without having to do anything further (and CRAN packages are full of them). On Unix-alikes the help files are all linked into a single virtual library, and on Windows links to the base package (and a few others) from other libraries are fixed up on installation by link.html.help (see its help). -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel