R help - Dec 2010 - pdf package help files

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 ? 
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On Dec 18, 2010, at 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 ?
There may be one but I don't know it if there is. The pdf files to  
which you refer are usually in the doc directory for each package (and  
can be found at CRAN as well). For example on my standard nstallation  
of R2.12 the pdf describing the gsubfn package is found it in:
/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.12/Resources/library/gsubfn/ 
doc/gsubfn.pdf

Each OS is different but once you find the root of R's installation  
there should be "library" and package sub-directories with
"doc" sub-
sub-directories. Not all packages have such a directory. The first one  
I looked in was lattice and I could not find one.

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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