Might it be feasible to just bundle any vignettes with the help file? Wouldn't this make them more accessible to, e.g., RSiteSearch?
Just a thought. Spencer Graves McGehee, Robert wrote: > 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 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
