[ESS] adding new .Rd files on the fly
Vitalie Spinu
spinuvit at gmail.com
Mon Sep 17 21:05:16 CEST 2012
>> Joe Corneli <holtzermann17 at gmail.com>
>> on Sun, 16 Sep 2012 19:51:35 +0100 wrote:
> The question is, if I create a new .Rd file, how can I get it
> recognized by Emacs? It seems that if I want to document a function
> like
> run.simulation
> I should just be able to create an .Rd file called run.simulation.Rd
> in the working directory, and have the contents show up when I press
> C-c C-v (`ess-display-help-on-object').
C-c C-v displays help for objects already present in R; that is the help
pages packaged and loaded into running R session.
> But that doesn't work. Do I need to put the file in some special
> place? Restart R? Or can I define some variable that will get
> `ess-display-help-on-object' (or, I guess,
> `inferior-ess-help-command') to always look my current working
> directory for new .Rd files?
This is not possible. It potentially can be done, but given a very
limited use, I doubt it's worth it. The closest you can get is to open
the Rd file and press C-c C-p to preview it in help buffer. With
ido-mode on, it should have the same look and feel as
ess-display-help-on-object, because IDO caches previously visited
directories.
Vitalie
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