staticdocs provides a way to conveniently render R package documentation into html pages suitable for stand-alone viewing, such as on a package webpage. You can see staticdocs in action at http://staticdocs.had.co.nz/dev/: this is the output of staticdocs applied to the latest version of staticdocs.

staticdocs is not currently available from CRAN, but you can install the development version from github with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("hadley/staticdocs")

• Attractive defaults: staticdocs uses [bootstrap] (http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/) to provide an attractive website.

• Customisable: you can override the default templates to provide alternative rendering

• Flexible ways to specify the index page so you can group related functions together.

Compared to Rd2html, staticdocs:

• Makes it easier to customise the output.

• Runs examples, so users see both input and output.

• Assumes only one package is being rendered - links to documentation in other packages are forwarded to inside-R.