[ESS] Can't find documentation for function

[Haris Fawad]

Hi Marc,

Yes, I load the package via devtools::load_all() before typing ?foo. When I
do the same in the R GUI-app I get the expected behaviour: the
documentation gets rendered and shown as an html file in the browser.

Best,
Haris

On Sun, Sep 18, 2022 at 7:29 PM Marc Schwartz <marc_schwartz using me.com> wrote:

> 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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