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Making an R package PDF manual using devtools


After you install it, you can use:

pack <- "name_of_your_package"path <- find.package(pack)system(paste(shQuote(file.path(R.home("bin"), "R")),    "CMD", "Rd2pdf", shQuote(path)))


There is

devtools::build_manual()

Maybe also

devtools::check(manual=TRUE)

could work.


For the PDF manual of one specific function, you can run

fun <- "name_of_function"help(fun, package = "name_of_package", help_type = "pdf")system(paste0("open ",  fun, ".pdf"))

assuming you have the package installed.