On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 10:22 -0400, Leeds, Mark (IED) wrote: > when i do ?whatever at the R prompt ( i use linux ), the help comes up > but it comes up like a man page. i would prefer to send it to a file. i > did a ?help and > it says something about sending the output to a file but nothing > specific enough that i can figure out what to do. the help page talks > about a parameter called "type" > but as far as i can tell, there is no "type" parameter in the call to > the help function ? if someone could tell me how to send output to a > file instead of the screen, i would > really appreciate it. thanks. > > also , i am using linux but i haven't figured out what kind or what > version #.
Typically, R's help files are already available as text files. They are usually in: $R_HOME/library/PACKAGENAME/help where $R_HOME on Linux is usually: > R.home() [1] "/usr/local/lib/R" Note that if you might prefer that help files come up in a browser window (ie. Firefox), you can set: options(htmlhelp=TRUE) in your ~/.Rprofile. In this way, they won't come up in the pager within the terminal console. See ?options and section 10.8 in the Intro to R Manual. WRT to the Linux version, most recent versions support the LSB command of: $ lsb_release -a LSB Version: :core-3.0-ia32:core-3.0-noarch:graphics-3.0-ia32:graphics-3.0-noarch Distributor ID: FedoraCore Description: Fedora Core release 5 (Bordeaux) Release: 5 Codename: Bordeaux You can also get kernel version information with: $ uname -a Linux horizons 2.6.17-1.2187_FC5 #1 Mon Sep 11 01:17:06 EDT 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux HTH, Marc Schwartz ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.