pdf package help files

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