Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, [UTF-8] José Matos wrote:
>
>> Hello, I maintain some packages in Fedora Extras for R related
>> modules.
>> Until R 2.2.0 I used for post processing (both after installing
>> andremoving the package) the following lines:
>> %{_bindir}/R CMD perl %{_libdir}/R/share/perl/build-help.pl
>> --htmllistscat %{_libdir}/R/library/*/CONTENTS >
>> %{_libdir}/R/doc/html/search/index.txt
>> Typically %{_bindir} is /usr/bin and %{_libdir} is /usr/lib
>> or/usr/lib64 The purpose of those lines is to enable the access to
>> the moduledocumentation from R help. The first refers to html and
>> the second to thetext help variant. With R 2.2.0 build-help.pl no
>> longer has the --htmllists option. Isthere any easy replacement,
>> or is there any other method to achieve the sameresults?
>
> It is no longer needed: the information is now built by R at runtime.
It is good to know that. My work becomes easier now. :-)
>> FWIW, I have searched trough the release notes as well as through
>> thedocumentation for sys admins and for package developers without
>> anysuccess.
>
> For an outsider it might not be obvious that the NEWS entry
>
> o R_HOME/doc/html/packages.html is now remade by R not Perl code.
> This may result in small changes in layout and a change in
> encoding (to UTF-8 where supported).
>
> refers to this. (Note that build-help.pl --htmllists was never documented
> as part of R's API.)
Actually I notice that line, it looked suspicious but then I got
distracted by the last sentence and I have focused on the layout changes.
"A posteriori" it is easy to justify most of our failures. :-)
> I checked Martyn Plummer's R.spec on CRAN, but that is out-of-date.
> Please look at the R.spec in his current SRPM, which works for me.
Where do I get it?
I checked the spec files in
http://cran.at.r-project.org/bin/linux/redhat/SRPMS/R.spec
http://cran.at.r-project.org/bin/linux/redhat/SRPMS/R-2.2.0-2.fc3.src.rpm
since they have different dates, and they both show the same line with the
--htmlists parameter:
# Update package indices
%{_bindir}/R CMD perl %{_libdir}/R/share/perl/build-help.pl --htmllists
> /dev/null 2>/dev/null
[Last line was wrapped by my email composer.]
--
José Abílio
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