Feature request: integrate py$help() with R's help() about reticulate

[jjallaire]

One problem here is that the ? and help methods in R are not S3 methods (so we can't customize their behavior). We could however add a py_help function to the reticulate package to at least make it less awkward to request help. What do you think of that idea?

[fritzo]

A py_help function sounds great!

I realize this FR may seem superficial, but I'm reading the docs of some of the tensorflow functions in your tensorflow wrapper and they dump pages of info to the console.

library(reticulate)
library(tensorflow)
py <- import_builtins()
py$help(tf$contrib$distributions$Beta)

[jjallaire]

I just added py_help to reticulate. I also noticed the problem with pages of info being dumped to the console. Let me see if there is anything we can do about that.

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[fritzo]

Thanks!

[jjallaire]

I just changed py_help to use the R file.show function (which will use a pager like "more" in a terminal and a front-end specific viewer in an environment like R GUI or RStudio)

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