tldrDocs

lifecycle

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.