Hi,

if your question is : how to get help in a pdf file

So do this :

options(help_type="pdf")
your next ?function will be in a pdf file with the name of the function.

2010/12/18 Joel Schwartz <joel@joelschwartz.com>

> I think that should have been
>
> help.start()
>
>
> Joel
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: r-help-bounces@r-project.org
> > [mailto:r-help-bounces@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Spencer Graves
> > Sent: Saturday, December 18, 2010 1:35 PM
> > To: Duncan Murdoch
> > Cc: r-help@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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