Rdo_args2txt_list: Extract the descriptions of the arguments of a function

In GeoBosh/gbRd: Utilities for Processing Rd Objects and Files

Extract the descriptions of the arguments of a function

Description

Collect the descriptions of the arguments of a function in a named list with one element per argument.

Usage

Rdo_args2txt_list(x, arg, ...)

Arguments

x	help object, may be any of the types that Rd_fun accepts: Rd object, name of a function, or the the value returned by help.
arg	A character vector naming the arguments to describe. If arg is missing, descriptions of all arguments are extracted.
...	additional arguments to pass to Rdo_args2txt

Details

If several arguments are described in a single documentation entry, then the whole text of the entry is given for each of the arguments.

Value

A named list with one entry (a string) for each of the requested arguments.

Author(s)

Georgi N. Boshnakov

See Also

Rdo_args2txt

Examples

# each arg always gets an individual entry in the list;
# compare:
Rdo_args2txt_list("seq", c("from", "to", "by"))
# to:
cat(Rdo_args2txt("seq", c("from", "to", "by")))

GeoBosh/gbRd documentation built on Oct. 19, 2023, 3:15 p.m.