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Open CRAN PDF Manual of a Package

Source: R/pdfManual.R
pdfManual.Rd

PDF versions of the manual are usually not included as vignettes in R packages. Still this format is convenient for reading and doing full text search.
This function creates the appropriate link to the pdf file on CRAN and opens the pdf manual in a browser window.

Usage

pdfManual(package)

Arguments

package

package name (symbol or character).

Value

the URL of the PDF manual, invisibly. Called for its side effect of opening the browser.

Details

A warning (not an error) is issued if the package is not installed locally, as the manual may well exist on CRAN anyway.

See also

browseURL()

Other file.io: parseSASDatalines(), peekFile(), readDownload()

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
pdfManual(DescToolsX)
pdfManual("bedrock")
} # }