On Tue, 26 Oct 2010, Kjetil Halvorsen wrote:
I have been searching the documentation for some time nmow, but cannot find it. It must be possible to download packages (many), but only install the help system?
I am not sure what you actally want: R CMD INSTALL does not install the Rd files -- it installs a database of parsed Rd files.
All things are possible in a programming language, but you would need to study the R code of INSTALL to see what to extract. One possibility would be to run a loop of calls to R CMD Rdconv to install HTML versions of help (which some people have asked for in the past).
However, disk space is cheap, and I would simply install the packages and discard the parts you don't want.
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