Pipe-able wrapper function around help()

This function allows you to pipe forward functions to open its help page.

h(x)

Arguments

x	expression

Source

https://stackoverflow.com/a/52080518/6873133

Value

None

Details

Using the pipe operator is commonplace and can influence the way you think about using functions. When looking up help pages, it is typical to add a question mark ? to the beginning of a function open its help page (e.g., ?dim). This function allows you to write left-to-right and simply pipe the function of interest into h to open its help page.

Examples

# Simple single function
eval %>% h

# Simple single function with parentheses
dim() %>% h

# Function but specifying package
dplyr::across %>% h

# Function but specifying package with parentheses
dplyr::summarise() %>% h

# Fails
iris %>% dplyr::mutate %>% h
#> Cannot parse input.
iris %>% dplyr::mutate() %>% h
#> Cannot parse input.