[R] pdf package help files

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 18/12/2010 2:20 PM, eric wrote:
>
> Newbie here...just learning
>
> Do most packages come with pdf versions of the help files ? If yes, how to I
> access the entire pdf file to be able to print it ? Is there a standard
> command for that ?

No, the pdf version is not normally installed.  If you want to see the 
same content on a locally installed package, run

help_start()

then browse to the package.  The pdf files are just concatenated 
versions of all the help pages shown in that index.

You can produce the pdf using

R CMD Rd2dvi --pdf foo

where foo is a directory holding the source code to the package. 
Alternatively, as others have suggested, just look at the PDF on CRAN.

Duncan Murdoch