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prompt {base}R Documentation

Produce Prototype of an R Documentation File

Description

The main goal is to facilitate the constructing of files documenting R functions.

An ASCII file filename is produced containing the proper function and argument names of object. You have to edit it before adding the documentation to the source tree, i.e., (currently) to ‘\$R\_HOME/src/library/base/man/’.

Usage

prompt(object, ...)

prompt.default(object,
    filename = paste(name, ".Rd", sep = ""),
    force.function = FALSE)

Arguments

object

an R object, typically a function

filename

name of the output file

force.function

treat object as function in any case

See Also

help and the tutorial about writing R documentation, currently in the file ‘\$R\_HOME/doc/manual/writing-Rd.tex’.

Examples

prompt(plot.default)
prompt(interactive, force.f = TRUE)

[Package base version 0.90 ]