[R] printing help files directly from R prompt

Uwe Ligges ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de
Tue Nov 25 09:59:33 CET 2008


See ?help and its argument "offline"

Uwe Ligges



Faheem Mitha wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Does anyone know how to print help files from R's prompt?
> 
> One can read the help text for read.table by doing
> 
>> ?read.table
> 
> on the R prompt. In a similar fashion, can I print the help read.table 
> without having to resort to a web browser?
> 
> Please CC me on any reply.
>                                                         Thanks, Faheem.
> 
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