Show an Rd file in viewer from Rstudio

Question

I have documentation for functions and datasets in a project folder. In a documentation folder, I have .Rd files for all the datasets. I\'d like the user to be able to call a cu

Answer 1

I don't quite understand why you want to do this, but it's possible. What you should do is just put your datasets into a package, document them there, and then users get easy access to them.

But if you really want to avoid that for some reason, here's how:

library(magrittr)
library(htmltools)
library(tools)
f <- "some.Rd"   # Set a filename for an Rd file here
f %>% 
  parse_Rd %>% 
  (function(x) capture.output(Rd2HTML(x))) %>% 
  HTML %>% 
  browsable