[R] subset of documentation for a given recommended package

[Duncan Murdoch]

On Sun, 23 May 2004 13:18:37 -0500, Alejandro Munoz del Rio
<munoz at stat.wisc.edu> wrote:

>Dear R-help readers,
>
>In R 1.8.1 it was easy to print the documentation for recommended packages: go
>to the full reference manual (refman.pdf) and print the relevant pages, which
>were contiguous. With R 1.9.0 some of those packages (e.g. "ts") have become
>part of the "stats" package, and hence their documentation is scattered
>throughout that of the other component packages of "stats". Is there a way of
>regenerating the documentation of a specific package, short of painstakingly
>identifying the relevant pages in the new reference manual?

If you have a list of the .Rd files you want, you can use 

R CMD Rd2dvi --pdf <list of files>

to produce pdf versions of a list of files.  

Duncan Murdoch