I think that should have been help.start()
Joel > -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org > [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Spencer Graves > Sent: Saturday, December 18, 2010 1:35 PM > To: Duncan Murdoch > Cc: r-help@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 > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > PLEASE do read the posting guide > > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
