rdtools: Efficient Manipulation of 'Rd' Files and Help Topics

Provides fast, cached lookup of help topics and aliases across installed, source, and in-development packages, plus efficient retrieval of parsed 'Rd' ('R' documentation) objects. Per-package indexes are built once and cached, making repeated retrieval cheap enough to call in a tight loop.

Version: 0.1.0
Depends: R (≥ 4.0)
Imports: stats, tools
Suggests: testthat (≥ 3.0.0), withr
Published: 2026-07-16
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.rdtools (may not be active yet)
Author: Hadley Wickham ORCID iD [aut, cre, cph], Posit Software, PBC ROR ID [cph, fnd]
Maintainer: Hadley Wickham <hadley at posit.co>
BugReports: https://github.com/r-lib/rdtools/issues
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://rdtools.r-lib.org, https://github.com/r-lib/rdtools
NeedsCompilation: yes
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: rdtools results

Documentation:

Reference manual: rdtools.html , rdtools.pdf

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Package source: rdtools_0.1.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: rdtools_0.1.0.zip, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: not available
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): rdtools_0.1.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): rdtools_0.1.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): rdtools_0.1.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): rdtools_0.1.0.tgz

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