Search Indices for Help Files

Usage

index.search(topic, path, file="AnIndex", type = "help")

Arguments

topic The keyword to be searched for in the indices.
path The path(s) to the packages to be searches.
file The index file to be searched. Normally `"AnIndex"'.
type The type of file required.

Description

Used to search the indices for help files, possibly under aliases.

Details

For each package in path, examine the file file in directory `help', and look up the matching file stem for topic topic, if any.

Value

A character vector of matching files, as if they are in directory type of the corresponding package. In the special cases of type = "html", "R-ex" and "latex" the file extensions ".html", ".R" and ".tex" are added.

See Also

help, example


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