[R] R tcl/tk

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 10/23/2006 10:11 AM, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
> This must be dumbest question ever asked, but...
> 
> When I ask help.search("tcltk"), I get a reference to tcltk-package.
> 
> When I ask help("tcltk-package"), I get "rtfm(s) in 'R_HOME/Tcl/doc'".
> 
> But then when I ask help.search("R_HOME"), I get nothing.
> 
> Is something missing here in those help pages?

"R_HOME" is a short form for "the directory where you installed R". 
This is referring you to a directory on your system that holds 
documentation that's outside of R's help system.

Duncan Murdoch