On 18/10/2015 5:51 PM, Spencer Graves wrote: > Hello: > > > What's the preferred way to link to package documentation from a > vignette using markdown? > > > My current draft includes > "[cumsum](https://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-devel/library/base/html/cumsum.html)" > > to link to the help page for cusum{base} and > "[KFAS](https://rweb.crmda.ku.edu/cran/web/packages/KFAS/KFAS.pdf)" to > link to the pdf documentation for the KFAS package. This works, but it > feels like an ugly hack, and I wonder if there might be some more > elegant way of doing this (documented in a fine manual I have yet to find)?
You can include links that work only when R is displaying the help using relative URLs like ../../base/help/cumsum or ../../base/html/cumsum.html (The former is like doing ?cumsum, i.e. it uses the alias; the latter goes directly to a page by its name.) The advantage of this kind of link is it doesn't need an Internet connection, it works with the R help system; the disadvantage is that it only works when the help system is running, so those links won't work in the copy of your vignette on CRAN, for example. Duncan Murdoch ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
