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How to generate a PDF reference of an R package

Posted on September 19, 2011 by Thomas Cokelaer

If you have the Rd files in a man directory, then in a shell command, you can use this command: R CMD Rd2dvi –pdf –title=’Test of foo’ -o /tmp/foo.pdf man/*.RdR CMD Rd2dvi –pdf –title=’Test of foo’ -o /tmp/foo.pdf man/*.Rd

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R: how to use command line arguments from R scripts

Posted on August 15, 2011 by Thomas Cokelaer

If you want to script R with arguments, you can type (under a Linux shell): R –no-restore –no-save –args 10 < script.RR –no-restore –no-save –args 10 < script.R where –args is a list of arguments that you want to use … Continue reading →

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Missing package in rpy2 (ggplot2)

Posted on May 13, 2011 by Thomas Cokelaer

When using rpy2, the python implementation of R, I quickly came up with the issue of having missing packages (e.g., ggplot2) With a fresh installation of rpy2 (and R-core), if you type the following code in your python shell: from … Continue reading →

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