Duncan, First, thank you. It's amazing how many things R has built in... such as these quirky functions! I really appreciate the example.
Second, as it turns out I was looking for something that doesn't exist in bayesm, although it wasn't obvious to me until I followed your answer and read the package web page more carefully (http://www.perossi.org/home/bsm-1/bayesm). I was looking for those extended examples that some packages have. For example e1071 has a file called svn.R in the /doc folder. Many packages, such as formatR and hmeasure have scripts with the same name as the package in the /doc folder. I thought (mistakenly) that those extended examples had been moved / encoded. For anyone searching for "bayesm examples" you may find this link helpful, because it does have some examples and more info about the book by Peter Rossi: http://www.perossi.org/home/bsm-1 On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 6:12 AM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 18/04/2014, 6:07 PM, Gene Leynes wrote: >> >> A few years ago R changed the way help was handled so that the HTML >> files are no longer available in the library directory. Around that >> time the R example files that used to be in some of the libraries also >> vanished. >> >> I'm wondering where the "r-ex" folder went. Is it totally unsupported >> and gone? Is it hidden in the mysterious rdx or rdb files? > > > The source for the examples will be in the \examples{} section of the .Rd > source file -- that didn't change. What changed was how the source is > processed. The files are now parsed into a binary format that is stored in > the database files. > > You can extract the examples from the source file using the tools::Rd2ex > function. You can extract them from the binary database using this function > on an Rd object, which is obtainable using the internal function > .getHelpFile. > > So for example, to see the code for the example for rwishart, you could do > > tools::Rd2ex(".../bayesm/man/rwishart.Rd") > > if you have the source file installed there, or > > library(bayesm) > Rd <- utils:::.getHelpFile(?rwishart) > tools::Rd2ex(Rd) > > if you have the package installed. > > Duncan Murdoch >> >> >> In particular I'm looking for the latest example scripts in the baysem >> package. I don't see them in the source code or the installed library. >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org 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. >> > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org 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.