Dear all, thanks for your suggestions. I like the idea of including directly the LaTeX file corresponding to the targeted topic, however, my understanding from the reading of ?help is that these LaTeX files are not always available, depending on the build of R.
I found a solution that works well enough for me by removing the backslashes from the help file this way: -------- tmp.rnw -------- \documentclass{article} \begin{document} <<mypager,echo=F,eval=T>>= mypager <- function(..., header = rep("", nfiles), title = "R Information", delete.file = FALSE){ args <- list(...) sanitize <- function(strings){ f <- function(x){ x.raw <- charToRaw(x) backspaces <- which(x.raw == charToRaw('\b')) if(length(backspaces) > 0){ x.raw <- x.raw[-c(backspaces, backspaces - 1)] # remove "_\b" } rawToChar(x.raw[x.raw >= as.raw(20)]) # remove non-printable ASCII } res <- sapply(strings, f) names(res) <- NULL return(res) } help.out <- lapply(args[[1]], readLines) help.out <- lapply(help.out, sanitize) lapply(help.out, cat, sep = "\n") } @ <<echo=T,print=F,eval=F, keep.source=T>>= ?plot @ <<echo=F,print=T,eval=T>>= help("plot", chmhelp = FALSE, htmlhelp = FALSE, pager = mypager) @ \end{document} -------- tmp.rnw -------- This works well for me when I'm Sweaving the file from an R session in the CLI interface in a terminal, but not when I'm Sweaving the file from the R GUI for the Mac (the function mypager is not called despite pager = mypager when calling the help function, don't understand why). The PDF looks like this: http://pbil.univ-lyon1.fr/members/lobry/tmp/tmp.pdf Thanks again for your help, Best, Jean -- Jean R. Lobry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Laboratoire BBE-CNRS-UMR-5558, Univ. C. Bernard - LYON I, 43 Bd 11/11/1918, F-69622 VILLEURBANNE CEDEX, FRANCE allo : +33 472 43 27 56 fax : +33 472 43 13 88 http://pbil.univ-lyon1.fr/members/lobry/ ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.