help

Arguments

key

character string. The requested help page

Description

help without argument displays the hypertext page containing the list of help chapters.

help(key) displays the Scilab help file associated with the given key. If no help file is found, help(key) automatically launches a search with the key word as search arguments.

See man for more explanation on how to write new help pages .

Examples

help();
help plot3d
help("plot")

See Also

• apropos — searches keywords in Scilab help
• Scilab documentation format — on line help XML file description format