Hi, Joel:
Thanks. That doubtless was what Duncan meant. "help.start()" ->
Reference: Packages provides access to HTML versions of all the help
pages from all the packages.
However, it does NOT provide access to the PDF version of the
help pages for a package. For that, you need to go to CRAN or run "R
CMD Rd2dvi --pdf foo", as Duncan suggested. And for the latter to work,
you need to source for the package, which you can get from CRAN for CRAN
packages.
Best Wishes,
Spencer
On 12/18/2010 2:46 PM, Joel Schwartz wrote:
I think that should have been
help.start()
Joel
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[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
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