On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 10:02 PM, Christophe Genolini <cgeno...@u-paris10.fr>wrote:
> Hi the list, > > In WRE (or in Rdindex), we can find how the INDEX is make, how to change > it, but I do not manage to find the purpose of this file. So what is the > INDEX file for? > > It's an index, or more precisely a table of contents for the package. The INDEX is part of what is displayed by help(package="pkgname"). It was more important before package help pages and vignettes, especially for non-GUI systems when it could be quite hard to work out which function help pages to look at in an unfamiliar package. -thomas -- Thomas Lumley Professor of Biostatistics University of Auckland [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel