On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 6:20 PM, Gabriel Becker <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Or perhaps you could imagine two help systems, akin to --help and man for > command line tools, one of which is minimalist showing usage, etc, > generated by roxygen comments, and one of which is much more extensive, and > not tied to (what could be extremely large) comments in the same .R file as > the code. > That sounds like basic help files and a few vignettes. I would argue we have the tools to do this if necessary. One can even create topics in the help file system (by using either Rd manually or through roxygen) that aren't necessarily tied to a function. And each time I come to the same conclusion: we have multiple tools to do this. We just need package developers to care enough to do it. -- Joris Meys Statistical consultant Department of Data Analysis and Mathematical Modelling Ghent University Coupure Links 653, B-9000 Gent (Belgium) <https://maps.google.com/?q=Coupure+links+653,%C2%A0B-9000+Gent,%C2%A0Belgium&entry=gmail&source=g> ----------- Biowiskundedagen 2017-2018 http://www.biowiskundedagen.ugent.be/ ------------------------------- Disclaimer : http://helpdesk.ugent.be/e-maildisclaimer.php [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
