[R] pdf package help files

[Spencer Graves]

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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