Reference guides in R
Each package CRAN
does not seem to provide a reference guide, but unlike vignettes
they do not seem to be downloaded or generated when packages are installed. Can this be done so that I can access them from the command line at R
or can I only access them at CRAN
?
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From specific package sources, you can build this via R CMD Rd2pdf
:
edd@max:~$ R CMD Rd2pdf --help
Usage: R CMD Rd2pdf [options] files
Generate PDF output from the Rd sources specified by files, by
either giving the paths to the files, or the path to a directory with
the sources of a package, or an installed package.
Unless specified via option '--output', the basename of the output file
equals the basename of argument 'files' if this specifies a package
or a single file, and 'Rd2' otherwise.
The Rd sources are assumed to be ASCII unless they contain \encoding
declarations (which take priority) or --encoding is supplied or if using
package sources, if the package DESCRIPTION file has an Encoding field.
The output encoding defaults to the package encoding then to 'UTF-8'.
Files are listed in the order given: for a package they are in alphabetic
order of the \name sections.
Options:
-h, --help print short help message and exit
-v, --version print version info and exit
--batch no interaction
--no-clean do not remove created temporary files
--no-preview do not preview generated PDF file
--encoding=enc use 'enc' as the default input encoding
--outputEncoding=outenc
use 'outenc' as the default output encoding
--os=NAME use OS subdir 'NAME' (unix or windows)
--OS=NAME the same as '--os'
-o, --output=FILE write output to FILE
--force overwrite output file if it exists
--title=NAME use NAME as the title of the document
--no-index do not index output
--no-description do not typeset the description of a package
--internals typeset 'internal' documentation (usually skipped)
--build_dir=DIR use DIR as the working directory
The output papersize is set by the environment variable R_PAPERSIZE.
The PDF previewer is set by the environment variable R_PDFVIEWER.
Report bugs at bugs.r-project.org .
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