[R] Opening package manual from within R

[Bert Gunter]

After loading the package, does help.start()  do what you want?

-- Bert

On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Tyler Rinker <tyler_rinker at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Simple question but searching rseek did not yield the results I wanted.
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> Question:  Is there a way to open a help manual for a package from within R.
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> For instance I would like to type a function in r for the tm package and R would open that PDF as seen here:
> http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/tm/tm.pdf
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> -The vignette function exists for vignettes [vignette("package.name")] so I assume the same exists for manuals.
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> -I do not want library(help="package.name") as this is not detailed enough.
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> I am running R 2.14.0 beta on a windows 7 machine
> Reproducible code does not seem appropriate in this case.
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