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The reference card
The reference card gives a good way to have all important functions on one place.
Get the documentation of one function
help(commandName, package = 'PackageName')
# or
?command
Case sensitive
?describeby
Will return as message:
No documentation for ‘describeby’ in specified packages and libraries:
you could try ‘??describeby’
You must type
?describeBy
Search the help documentation
help.search() or the special character ?? for finding help pages on a topic
??describe
//or
help.search("describe")
Get the help on one package
Get the help on one package
help(package=boot)
Get the documentation
- help.start() opens the HTML version of the R help pages
> help.start()
starting httpd help server ... done
If nothing happens, you should open
'http://127.0.0.1:23596/doc/html/index.html' yourself