[R] R Example scripts

[William Dunlap]

> library(bayesm)
> Rd <- utils:::.getHelpFile(?rwishart)
> tools::Rd2ex(Rd)

Or you could use example() to get a character vector of the example
code in a help file.
   library(bayesm)
   example(rwishart, give.lines=TRUE)

Bill Dunlap
TIBCO Software
wdunlap tibco.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf
> Of Duncan Murdoch
> Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2014 4:12 AM
> To: gleynes+r at gmail.com; r-help
> Subject: Re: [R] R Example scripts
> 
> On 18/04/2014, 6:07 PM, Gene Leynes wrote:
> > A few years ago R changed the way help was handled so that the HTML
> > files are no longer available in the library directory.  Around that
> > time the R example files that used to be in some of the libraries also
> > vanished.
> >
> > I'm wondering where the "r-ex" folder went. Is it totally unsupported
> > and gone? Is it hidden in the mysterious rdx or rdb files?
> 
> The source for the examples will be in the \examples{} section of the
> .Rd source file -- that didn't change.  What changed was how the source
> is processed.  The files are now parsed into a binary format that is
> stored in the database files.
> 
> You can extract the examples from the source file using the tools::Rd2ex
> function.  You can extract them from the binary database using this
> function on an Rd object, which is obtainable using the internal
> function .getHelpFile.
> 
> So for example, to see the code for the example for rwishart, you could do
> 
> tools::Rd2ex(".../bayesm/man/rwishart.Rd")
> 
> if you have the source file installed there, or
> 
> library(bayesm)
> Rd <- utils:::.getHelpFile(?rwishart)
> tools::Rd2ex(Rd)
> 
> if you have the package installed.
> 
> Duncan Murdoch
> >
> > In particular I'm looking for the latest example scripts in the baysem
> > package. I don't see them in the source code or the installed library.
> >
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