Follow the link https://github.com/IRkernel/IRkernel
To create documentation for a function using roxygen2 you need #Load the necessary libraries library(devtools) library(roxygen2) dir.create("packagedir") #unlink("packagedir", recursive=TRUE) # If you want to delete the directory for some reason setwd("packagedir") create() # This will create the package skeleton for roxygen2 to work create the function\functions you need to document in the R directory ensure that you are at the top level of the directory and not in the directory document() #This will create the rd documents setwd("..") # Go one directory step up install("packagedir") #Enter your package name here shell("rm -f packagedir.pdf") shell("R CMD Rd2pdf packagedir") #This will create a packagedir.pdf file in the directory setwd("./packagedir")