[ESS] Can't find documentation for function

[Marc Schwartz]

Hi,

Did you type:

  library(mypac)

first, before trying ?foo?

The behavior suggests that the package is not currently loaded in the search path, hence the error.

When you use ?mypac::foo, that explicitly tells R that you want the help for the function which is located in mypac and looks for the file there. Without the package prefix, it only looks in the current search path, and thus does not find the package there.

Regards,

Marc Schwartz


On September 18, 2022 at 4:54:05 AM, Haris Fawad via ESS-help (ess-help using r-project.org (mailto:ess-help using r-project.org)) wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I get the following error when I try to open the help file on a function
> 'mypac::foo'.
>
> "ess-r-help--build-help-command--unqualified: Can’t find documentation for
> ‘foo’".
>
> I get the error when I type '?foo', but not when I type '?mypac::foo'.
> Indeed, the file 'man/foo.Rd' exists, after I run 'devtools::document()'.
>
> I don't get the error when I request documentation for a standard
> R-function, such as '?sum'.
>
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