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Online Documentation

Syntax

help(name)
?name

help(data=name)
?data(name)

help(library=name)
?library(name)

Arguments

name the topic for which documentation is desired.

Description

These functions provide online access to documentation. Documentation on a function with name name can be printed on-screen with either help(name) or ?name. In the case of unary and binary operators and control-flow special forms, the name may need to be be quoted.

Help on data sets and libraries can be obained with the other forms.

See Also

help.start() which opens the HTML-Version of the R documentation; data, library, methods.

Examples

help(help) help("for") # or ?"for" ?"+" ?data(index) #-- a list of all the available datasets ?data(women) #-- information about "women" dataset ?library(mva)#-- what is available in library(mva)