In the case of R itself and the Windows platform this might usefully be placed into the Rgui help menu.
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 8:44 AM, Henrik Bengtsson <[email protected]> wrote: > Please note my initial comment that it is hard for newcomers to find > or even know about the existence of NEWS (and worse CHANGES) [for R > itself]. Yet, we often imply that they should have read those before > reporting problems. > > /Henrik > > On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Romain Francois > <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 11/13/2009 10:52 AM, Karl Ove Hufthammer wrote: >>> >>> On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:37:31 +0100 Henrik Bengtsson >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> I'd like to recommend that links to (local) NEWS and CHANGES are added >>>> to the help.start() overview pages. help("NEWS")/help("CHANGE LOG") >>>> and help("CHANGES") could display/refer to them as well. >>> >>> Are you talking of the NEWS and CHANGES for R itself, or for packages >>> too? It would be very useful having a convenience function for this for >>> packages too. Perhaps something like >>> >>> library(news=MASS) (or MASS as a character string) >>> and >>> library(changes=spdep) >>> >>> similar to library(help=MASS) >>> >>> Or have I overlooked something, and a function for this already exists? >> >> ?news >> >> -- >> Romain Francois >> Professional R Enthusiast >> +33(0) 6 28 91 30 30 >> http://romainfrancois.blog.free.fr >> |- http://tr.im/EAD5 : LondonR slides >> |- http://tr.im/BcPw : celebrating R commit #50000 >> `- http://tr.im/ztCu : RGG #158:161: examples of package IDPmisc >> >> ______________________________________________ >> [email protected] mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >> > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
