I was recently browsing through CRAN's Finance task view to remind myself of the publicly available packages relevant to my work. As the reference manuals are all online, I am able to flip through the available functions to get an idea of the package's scope before downloading.
That said, many authors have taken the time to additionally provide a useful vignette which provides a better overview to complicated packages. However, as far as I can tell, the only way to read or even know if a package has a vignette is to first download and unpack the package source, which is inconvenient when one wants to understand a package _before_ installing. Perhaps an easy way to make vignettes more accessible to the end user would be to link the vignette PDF directly to the download page so that one could download it just as one can download the reference manual or package source. This both publicizes the vignette (since many users may even be unaware that a package has a vignette) and facilitates browsing. Just a thought! Best, Robert Robert McGehee Quantitative Analyst Geode Capital Management, LLC 53 State Street, 5th Floor | Boston, MA | 02109 Tel: 617/392-8396 Fax:617/476-6389 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] This e-mail, and any attachments hereto, are intended for us...{{dropped}} ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
