R: Generate Outline Documentation for a Data Set

promptData {utils} | R Documentation

## Generate Outline Documentation for a Data Set

### Description

Generates a shell of documentation for a data set.

### Usage

    promptData(object, filename = NULL, name = NULL)

### Arguments

`object` | an R object to be documented as a data set.
`filename` | usually, a connection or a character string giving the name of the file to which the documentation shell should be written. The default corresponds to a file whose name is `name` followed by `".Rd"`. Can also be `NA` (see below).
`name` | a character string specifying the name of the object.

### Details

Unless `filename` is `NA`, a documentation shell for `object` is written to the file specified by `filename`, and a message about this is given.

If `filename` is `NA`, a list-style representation of the documentation shell is created and returned. Writing the shell to a file amounts to `cat(unlist(x), file = filename, sep = "\n")`, where `x` is the list-style representation.

Currently, only data frames are handled explicitly by the code.

### Value

If `filename` is `NA`, a list-style representation of the documentation shell. Otherwise, the name of the file written to is returned invisibly.

### See Also

`prompt`

### Examples

    promptData(sunspots)
    unlink("sunspots.Rd")

[Package utils version 2.15.1 Index]