R: Run an Examples section from the online help

Run an Examples section from the online help

Usage

example(topic, package= .packages(), lib=.lib.loc,
        echo=TRUE, verbose=.Options$verbose,
        prompt.echo = paste(abbreviate(topic, 6),"> ", sep=""),
        directory.sep= "/")

Arguments

`topic`	name or character: The online `help` topic the examples of which should be run.
`package`	a character vector with package names.
`lib`	a character vector with path names of R package libraries.
`echo`	logical; if `TRUE`, show the R input when sourcing.
`verbose`	logical; if `TRUE`, show even more when running example code.
`prompt.echo`	character; gives the prompt to be used if `echo = TRUE`.
`directory.sep`	character; the directory separating character (an idea to make this OS independent).

Description

Run all the R code from the EXAMPLES part of R's online help topic topic.

Value

(the value of the last evaluated expression).

Note

The examples can be many small files. On some file systems it is desirable to save space, and the files in the `R-ex' directory of an installed package can be zipped up as a zip archive `Rex.zip'.

Author(s)

Martin Maechler

Examples

example("smooth", package="eda")
example(dbinom)

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