Gabor Grothendieck wrote on 13 Oct 2004 07:16:07 MET: > Warnes, Gregory R <gregory.r.warnes <at> pfizer.com> writes:
> : > Since I'm still new to R: can somebody give me a pointer to the > : > docs where to find instructions on a package (not a function)? I > : > can find the man pages to specific functions with ?<functionname> > : > (something similar to `texdoc <packagename>' in tetex)? > : > : library(help=<packagename>) > : > : you can also get the PDF package documentation available on cran, e.g. > : http://cran.r-project.org/doc/packages/gregmisc.pdf [snip] > Also some packages, though not many, have vignettes which are > documents that describe the package as a whole as opposed to > single functions. Just issue the command: > > vignette() [snip] Greg and Gabor: Thank you for the pointers! Cheers Patrick -- "I really should talk to him. He's had a near-death experience!" "We all have. It's called living." Terry Pratchett, Hogfather ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
