On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Duncan Murdoch <murd...@stats.uwo.ca> wrote: > On 28/02/2010 7:19 AM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: >> >> The name of the package is at the top of each help page and then >> library(help = myPackage) would get you the maintainer info. Or in >> place of the last step googling for CRAN myPackage would get to a page >> like this: >> http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/zoo/index.html >> so it could be done in two steps. >> >> What would be nice would be if the R help systems HTML help page for >> each command had a link to a local version of the above page for the >> associated package (and perhaps the HTML Index page for the package >> would also link to it). Then it would just be a matter of bringing up >> the help page and clicking on the package name at the top. > > Not all of the information on that page would make sense locally. Some of > it is there to help you decide whether to download the package, or to > actually download it. > > The things I see that aren't available in the package index page in R-devel: > > - CRAN checks > - download links > - reverse dependencies > > Am I missing something? None of those seem like they'd be sensible locally.
By Index page I was referring to the page you get when you click Index at the bottom of any HTML help file. After clicking Index you get an HTML page that gives a clickable list of help pages for that package. You don`t get the description of the package, the name and contact info to the maintainer, or a link to such info. For the helloJavaWorld package this is what you get (where I have added a star after each link): Hello Java World Documentation for package ‘helloJavaWorld’ version 0.0-6 User Guides and Package Vignettes Read overview* or browse directory*. Help Pages helloJavaWorld* Function to say hello from a Java class ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
