[R] .Rd Files

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, Indrajit Sengupta wrote:

> While downloading the R 1.4.1 for windows from the zip
> file, I downloaded a zip file rw1041m.zip which
> consisted of .Rd files. Could anybody tell what are
> these files for?

It tells you in the README:

rw1041m.zip                            installed .Rd files

As to why you might want installed .Rd files, look at the tools package.
End users are very unlikely to make use of them.

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