[R] pdf package help files

[Joel Schwartz]

I think that should have been

help.start() 


Joel

> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org 
> [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Spencer Graves
> Sent: Saturday, December 18, 2010 1:35 PM
> To: Duncan Murdoch
> Cc: r-help at r-project.org; eric
> Subject: Re: [R] pdf package help files
> 
> Hi, Duncan:
> 
> 
>        I'm confused:
> 
> 
> help_start()
> Error: could not find function "help_start"
> 
> 
>        Thanks,
>        Spencer
> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.12.0 (2010-10-15)
> Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)
> 
> locale:
> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252 [2] 
> LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252 [3] 
> LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252 [4] LC_NUMERIC=C [5] 
> LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
> 
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>  >
> 
> 
> On 12/18/2010 1:19 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> > 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
> >
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