[R] pdf package help files

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 18/12/2010 5:46 PM, Joel Schwartz wrote:
> I think that should have been
>
> help.start()

Yes, thanks.  What I need is a Thunderbird plug-in that understands R code.

Duncan Murdoch

>
>
> Joel
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org
>> [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Spencer Graves
>> Sent: Saturday, December 18, 2010 1:35 PM
>> To: Duncan Murdoch
>> Cc: r-help at r-project.org; eric
>> Subject: Re: [R] pdf package help files
>>
>> Hi, Duncan:
>>
>>
>>         I'm confused:
>>
>>
>> help_start()
>> Error: could not find function "help_start"
>>
>>
>>         Thanks,
>>         Spencer
>> sessionInfo()
>> R version 2.12.0 (2010-10-15)
>> Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)
>>
>> locale:
>> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252 [2]
>> LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252 [3]
>> LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252 [4] LC_NUMERIC=C [5]
>> LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
>>
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>>   >
>>
>>
>> On 12/18/2010 1:19 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>>> On 18/12/2010 2:20 PM, eric wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Newbie here...just learning
>>>>
>>>> Do most packages come with pdf versions of the help files
>> ? If yes,
>>>> how to I access the entire pdf file to be able to print it
>> ? Is there
>>>> a standard command for that ?
>>>
>>> No, the pdf version is not normally installed.  If you want
>> to see the
>>> same content on a locally installed package, run
>>>
>>> help_start()
>>>
>>> then browse to the package.  The pdf files are just concatenated
>>> versions of all the help pages shown in that index.
>>>
>>> You can produce the pdf using
>>>
>>> R CMD Rd2dvi --pdf foo
>>>
>>> where foo is a directory holding the source code to the package.
>>> Alternatively, as others have suggested, just look at the
>> PDF on CRAN.
>>>
>>> Duncan Murdoch
>>>
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