[R] starting pdf help for a package? (was starting html help for a package?)

Liviu Andronic landronimirc at gmail.com
Fri Nov 13 13:02:20 CET 2009


Dear all
A sequel to my previous post.

On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca> wrote:
> At some point in the future the package?info page will be able to be
> generated automatically, and I imagine it will end up containing the package
> info you saw.   It would make sense for
>
> help(package="boot", help_type = "html")
>
> to give the same result.
>
Alternatively, I was also experimenting with
help(package="boot", help_type = "pdf")

to call a formatted help of a package, but this too fell back to text,
although I would have expected it to pop up [1]. Would it make sense
to make the command do so in the future?
Thank you
Liviu

[1] http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/boot/boot.pdf




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