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Abstract Details

Activity Number: 522
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Wednesday, August 3, 2011 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
Sponsor: Section on Statistical Computing
Abstract - #303235
Title: Helpr: Documentation Made Friendly
Author(s): Barret E. Schloerke*+ and Hadley Wickham
Companies: Iowa State University and Rice University
Address: Department of Statistics, San Francisco, CA, 94107, US
Keywords: help ; R ; documentation ; html ; internet
Abstract:

This talk will describe my 2010 summer research work with Hadley Wickham, on the R package `helpr`. helpr expidites the user finding help in their own working environment. It provides documentation in a friendly HTML format, providing links to other packages, function aliases, and function sources. Finding information about a package and dependencies is painless. There is a also a comprehensive search tool for searching across all R packages for features. Most of `helpr` does not require the internet, while some features (search, RSS feed) require an available internet connection.


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