rd2md 1.0.1

Converter from R docs to markdown

rd2md

A converter to transform R doc files (.Rd) into markdown files (.md).

Installation

pip install rd2md

Usage

In the following command-line examples you can use rd2md or python -m rd2md.

rd2md [RD-DIRECTORY] [MD-DIRECTORY] BASE-FILENAME-1 BASE-FILENAME-2 ...

where:

• [RD-DIRECTORY] is the directory of .Rd files (eg, R/man)
• [MD-DIRECTORY] is the output directory for markdown files
• BASE-FILENAME is the name of an Rd file without the directory or extension

Example

To use R/man as the directory of Rd files, and documentation as the output directory, converting R/man/create_experiment.Rd to documentation/create_experiment.md and R/man/Experiment.Rd to documentation/Experiment.md do this:

rd2md R/man documentation create_experiment Experiment