help: Drop-in replacements for help and ? functions

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Drop-in replacements for help and ? functions

Description

The ⁠?⁠ and help functions are drop-in replacements for those in the utils package. They automatically translate help to the language specified by the LANG or LANGUAGE environment variables, or by lang_use().

Usage

# help(topic, package = NULL, ...)

# ?e2
# e1?e2

Arguments

topic	A name or character string specifying the help topic.
package	A name or character string specifying the package in which to search for the help topic. If NULL, search all packages.
...	Additional arguments to pass to utils::help().
e1	First argument to pass along to ⁠utils::⁠?“.
e2	Second argument to pass along to ⁠utils::⁠?“.

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