R in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition

tools

This package provides tools for developing packages.

Functions

Function	Description
Rd2HTML	This (experimental) function converts from an R help page to an HTML document.
Rd2ex	This (experimental) function converts from an R help page to the format used by example.
Rd2latex	This (experimental) function converts from an R help page to a LaTeX document.
Rd2txt	This (experimental) function converts from an R help page to a text document.
Rd_db	Builds a simple database of all R documentation (Rd) sources in a package, as a list of character vectors with the lines of the Rd files in the package.
Rdiff	Given two R output files, computes differences, ignoring headers, footers, and some encoding differences.
Rdindex	Prints a two-column index table with names and titles from given R documentation files to a given output file or connection. The titles are nicely formatted between two column positions (typically 25 and 72).
buildVignettes	Runs Sweave and texi2dvi on all vignettes of a package.
checkDocFiles	Checks, for all Rd files in a package, whether all arguments shown in the usage sections of the Rd file are documented in its arguments section.
checkDocStyle	Investigates how (S3) methods are shown in the usages of the Rd files in a package.
checkFF	Performs checks on calls to compiled code from R code.
checkMD5sums	Checks the files against a file “MD5.”
checkNEWS	Reads R’s NEWS file or a similarly formatted one. This is an experimental feature, new in R 2.4.0, and may change in several ways.
checkRd	These experimental ...