Thanks for the tip. I had thought of using the demo facility for this
but I didn't know how to check for the operating system.
This is a clumsy solution, but better than nothing. I agree with Duncan
that there is a problem with the help system. It should either have a
way to embed formulas and g
This all seems very similar to the built-in "vignette" function; e.g.
vignette("grid")
Cheers,
Rich
On 11/8/06, Dominick Samperi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> > There is options("pdfviewer") -- at least under Unix. Maybe there is
> > even an R call to use it on a file,
Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> There is options("pdfviewer") -- at least under Unix. Maybe there is
> even an R call to use it on a file, employed by the help system?
> Dirk
Thanks,
Here is a more complete solution that can be turned into a general-purpose
function...
# Displays PDF file as an R demo
On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 12:41 -0500, Dominick Samperi wrote:
> Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> > On 11/7/2006 8:51 AM, Agner Fog wrote:
> >
> >> I am building a package for various noncentral hypergeometric
> >> distributions.
> >>
> >> I want to include some heavy mathematical formulas. It appears that
Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> On 11/7/2006 8:51 AM, Agner Fog wrote:
>
>> I am building a package for various noncentral hypergeometric distributions.
>>
>> I want to include some heavy mathematical formulas. It appears that the
>> build and INSTALL commands produce only .chm files and not .pdf files
On 11/7/2006 8:51 AM, Agner Fog wrote:
> I am building a package for various noncentral hypergeometric distributions.
>
> I want to include some heavy mathematical formulas. It appears that the
> build and INSTALL commands produce only .chm files and not .pdf files
> from my .Rd files under Wind
