One of the lesser-known features of Inference Studio is its direct integration with R-Help. Inference Studio can send context-sensitive queries directly to R-Help with the push of a single button. For example, in the How-To Guide entitled "Output HTML Tables" (available for download in Inference Online), if I place my cursor anywhere in a word like this:
…and then press F1 on the keyboard, Inference Studio will send an exact-match lookup help request to R for the word "print," which results in this:
If you specify package references for your Inference Studio document, then you can even use this exact lookup on keywords contained outside of the base packages. For example, in the same document, I reference the package xtable:
In my code, I can place the cursor inside of a word, such as the function "xtable:"
…and then when I press F1, Inference Studio will load the referenced packages, and then lookup the word:
Inference Studio also supports other kinds of R-Help lookups. You can right click on any word, and select from an Exact, Contains, or Substring lookup:
If I do a Contains search on the word "table," I then get a list of keywords that contain the term "table" using fuzzy matching:
The bottom line is that the R-Help integration in Inference Studio can save you a lot of time in getting the documentation you need to keep on coding. Try it out and see what you think.