help2 {toscutil}

Return help for topic

Description

This function returns the help text for the specified topic formatted either as plain text, html or latex.

Usage

help2(topic, format = c("text", "html", "latex"), package = NULL)

Arguments

topic

character, the topic for which to return the help text. See argument topic of function help() for details.

format

character, either "text", "html" or "latex"

package

character, the package for which to return the help text. This argument will be ignored if topic is specified. Package must be attached to the search list first, e.g. by calling library(package).

Details

This function was copied in part from: https://www.r-bloggers.com/2013/06/printing-r-help-files-in-the-console-or-in-knitr-documents/

Examples

htm <- help2("sum", "html")
txt <- help2(topic = "sum", format = "text")
cat2(txt)