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tldrDocs

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tldrDocs provides tldrPages documentation for many of the commonly-used objects included in the base distribution of R. For example, there is documentation included for all of the distribution functions exported in stats—below, we show the documentation for the *pois() functions:

example showing tldr(dpois)

Also included is documentation for the apply() family of functions. Here, we include the documentation for lapply(), sapply(), and vapply():

example showing tldr(lapply)

Installation

You can install the development version of tldrDocs from GitHub with:

if (!requireNamespace("remotes")) install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("jamesotto852/tldrDocs")

Once you have installed tldrDocs, you do not need to (and should not) load it via library(). tldrPages::tldr() will be able to find the installed documentation for base R functions automatically.

Details

The goal of tldrDocs is not to provide documentation for every function exported in base R—just those that are commonly used and/or have aspects that are difficult to remember. If you believe that documentation is missing or existing documentation needs correcting, please open an issue or fork this repository and submit a PR. For help on writing tldrPages documentation, see the tldrPages repo.

Note, only base packages are documented via tldrDocs—if you are a package developer that wants to include tldrPages documentation in a package, see tldrExample for an example of a package with tldrPages documentation.

These binaries (installable software) and packages are in development.
They may not be fully stable and should be used with caution. We make no claims about them.