You can see all the installed vignettes on your system with
`browseVignettes()`. (This opens a browser page.)
Alternatively `browseVignettes("pkgname")` for those related to a single
package.

HTH,
Eric


On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 11:37 AM Richard O'Keefe <rao...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Let's put some numbers on that.
> The CRAN package repository claims 18770 packages.
> That excludes packages in other repositories, of
> course; the total collection of vignettes may not
> be discoverable.
> It could be useful to collect documents and vignettes
> and stuff them into an information retrieval system,
> but I cannot imagine a single PDF being usable.
>
> On Mon, 31 Oct 2022 at 08:34, Jeff Newmiller <jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us>
> wrote:
>
> > No. It would be impractically large and would be out of date by the time
> > it was finished being assembled. And not all vignettes are built in PDF
> > form anyway.
> >
> > R packages are maintained by individuals or small teams completely
> > independently from R.
> >
> > On October 30, 2022 12:23:54 PM PDT, "Sun, John" <jsu...@albany.edu>
> > wrote:
> > >Dear All,
> > >
> > >I am writing to ask whether there exists a single pdf of all the
> > vignettes from R packages.
> > >This would be good resource.
> > >
> > >Best regards,
> > >John
> > >
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