tools (version 3.5.2)

HTMLlinks: Collect HTML Links from Package Documentation

Description

Compute relative file paths for URLs to other package's installed HTML documentation.

Usage

findHTMLlinks(pkgDir = "", lib.loc = NULL, level = 0:2)

Arguments

pkgDir

the top-level directory of an installed package. The default indicates no package.

lib.loc

character vector describing the location of R library trees to scan: the default indicates .libPaths().

level

Which level(s) to include.

Value

A named character vector of file paths, relative to the html directory of an installed package. So these are of the form "../../somepkg/html/sometopic.html".

Details

findHTMLlinks tries to resolve links from one help page to another. It uses in decreasing priority

• The package in pkgDir: this is used when converting HTML help for that package (level 0).

• The base and recommended packages (level 1).

• Other packages found in the library trees specified by lib.loc in the order of the trees and alphabetically within a library tree (level 2).