RdUtils {base}R Documentation

Utilities for Processing Rd Files

Description

Utilities for converting files in R documentation (Rd) format to other formats or create indices from them, and for converting documentation in other formats to Rd format.

Usage

R CMD Rdconv [options] file
R CMD Rd2dvi [options] files
R CMD Rd2pdf [options] files

Arguments

file

the path to a file to be processed.

files

a list of file names specifying the R documentation sources to use, by either giving the paths to the files, or the path to a directory with the sources of a package.

options

further options to control the processing, or for obtaining information about usage and version of the utility.

Details

R CMD Rdconv converts Rd format to plain text, HTML or LaTeX formats: it can also extract the examples.

R CMD Rd2pdf is the user-level program for producing PDF output from Rd sources. It will make use of the environment variables R_PAPERSIZE (set by R CMD, with a default set when R was installed: values for R_PAPERSIZE are a4, letter, legal and executive) and R_PDFVIEWER (the PDF previewer). Also, RD2DVI_INPUTENC can be set to inputenx to make use of the LaTeX package of that name rather than inputenc: this might be needed for better support of the UTF-8 encoding.

R CMD Rd2dvi is a deprecated alternative to R CMD Rd2pdf, which is equivalent to Rd2dvi --pdf; it will be removed in R 2.15.0. When used for DVI output (without the --pdf flag) it will also make use of the environment variable xdvi (the DVI previewer, default xdvi)

Use R CMD

foo --help to obtain usage information on utility foo.

See Also

The chapter “Processing Rd format” in the “Writing R Extensions” manual.


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