R Package Vignettes with Markdown

1 · Yihui Xie · Sept. 10, 2012, midnight
Note: since R 3.0.0, you can build Markdown vignettes naturally; see https://yihui.name/knitr/demo/vignette/ for details. What is the best resource to learn an R package? Many R users know the almighty question mark ? in R. For example, type ?lm and you will see the documentation of the function lm. If you know nothing about a package, you can take a look at the HTML help by help.start() where you can find the complete list of documentation by clicking the link Packages. The individual help p...