R help - Aug 2002 - printing from latex help files in R

Dear People,

I would like to print out some of the R help pages pertaining to various
topics. These are available on my system as html files. However they also
appear to be available as latex files in (for example) the R source tree
in the subdirectory library/base/latex. What I am wondering is if it is
possible to convert these latex files into postscript using dvips as is
usually done. The latex files don't appear to be standalone (missing
\begin{document} etc and also seem to have some special macros, so if this
can be done at all, it presumably would have to use some special command.
I looked around for information about this but could not find it. I would
greatly appreciate any information about this.

                                          Sincerely, Faheem Mitha.

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On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
>
> Faheem,
>
> > help(some.topic, offline=TRUE)
>
> should do if you also install r-base-latex under Debian -- as the latex
> files are only useful for offline viewing, and nobody else ever asked :)
> I decided to move them into a seperate package to keep the size on
> r-base-core down.
Thanks. However, I'm now getting a weird problem trying to print the help
file called Random.

help.search("Random")

gives me

Random.user(base)       User-supplied Random Number Generation
Random(base)            Random Number Generation
...

Now I get
> help("Random",offline=TRUE)
Error in help("Random", offline = TRUE) : No documentation for
`Random' in
specified packages and libraries:
  you could try `help.search("Random")'

But Random.user works fine with identical syntax. What is wrong?

                                          Best regards, Faheem.

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