[R] printing from latex help files in R

[Uwe Ligges]

Faheem Mitha wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> 
> >
> > Faheem,
> >
> > > help(some.topic, offline=TRUE)
> >
> > should do if you also install r-base-latex under Debian -- as the latex
> > files are only useful for offline viewing, and nobody else ever asked :)
> > I decided to move them into a seperate package to keep the size on
> > r-base-core down.
> 
> Thanks. However, I'm now getting a weird problem trying to print the help
> file called Random.
> 
> help.search("Random")
> 
> gives me
> 
> Random.user(base)       User-supplied Random Number Generation
> Random(base)            Random Number Generation
> ...
> 
> Now I get
> 
> > help("Random",offline=TRUE)
> Error in help("Random", offline = TRUE) : No documentation for `Random' in
> specified packages and libraries:
>   you could try `help.search("Random")'
> 
> But Random.user works fine with identical syntax. What is wrong?


(Almost) nothing. We have had a discussion on the R-devel list starting
on July 26 with subject "Random.Rd". Just investigate the thread in the
mailing list archives.

Uwe Ligges
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