[Rd] minor typos in ?which and ?apropos (PR#9013)

2006-06-20 Thread bolker
find . -name "*.Rd" | xargs grep "who's" these should both be "whose" ./src/library/base/man/which.Rd: a \code{\link{dim}} attribute), the result is a matrix who's rows each (also consider "whose rows are each the indices ..." rather than "whose rows each are the indices ...") ./src/library/u

Re: [Rd] Documentation issues [Was: Function hints]

2006-06-20 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
I've done a bit on this, but I've kept a low profile because it is "under development". In the R.oo package there is the Rdoc compiler, which compiles Rdoc comments into Rd files. It uses directives such as @include "../incl/myExample.R" and @synopsis (extracting details from the code), @keyword

Re: [Rd] [R] Function hints

2006-06-20 Thread hadley wickham
> For me, it's been extremely helpful to keep function & documentation > together during editing-- it greatly increases the chance that I will > actually update the doco when I change the code, rather than putting it > off until I've forgotten what I did. Also, writing Rd format is a > nightmare (a

Re: [Rd] [R] Function hints

2006-06-20 Thread hadley wickham
I think it's bad to document dissimilar functions in the same file, but similar related functions *should* be documented together. Not doing this just adds to the burden of documenting them, and the risk of modifying only part of the documentation so that it is inconsistent. The user also gets th

Re: [Rd] Documentation issues [Was: Function hints]

2006-06-20 Thread Heather Turner
>>> Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 06/20/06 11:58am >>> On 6/20/2006 5:18 AM, Heather Turner wrote: > I would like to follow up on another one of the documentation issues raised > in the discussion on function hints. Duncan mentioned that the R core were > working on preprocessing directive

Re: [Rd] Wish/suggestion: add output of citation() to package "manuals" (PR#9010)

2006-06-20 Thread friedrich . leisch
> On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 12:22:42 +0200 (CEST), > gregor gorjanc (gg) wrote: > Dear R core, > influenced by recent panel discussion in Vienna I think that it would be > nice to add package specific output of citation() function to package > reference manuals. I think that apropriate p

Re: [Rd] Wish/suggestion: add output of citation() to package "manuals" (PR#9009)

2006-06-20 Thread Friedrich Leisch
> On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 12:22:42 +0200 (CEST), > gregor gorjanc (gg) wrote: > Dear R core, > influenced by recent panel discussion in Vienna I think that it would be > nice to add package specific output of citation() function to package > reference manuals. I think that apropriate p

Re: [Rd] [R] combining tables

2006-06-20 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On 6/20/06, Robin Hankin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 19 Jun 2006, at 12:45, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > > Try this: > > > > both <- c(x,y) > > as.table(tapply(both, names(both), sum)) > > > thanks for this, Gabor. > > The class of the objects I am manipulating in my > package is c("count", "tab

Re: [Rd] Documentation issues [Was: Function hints]

2006-06-20 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 6/20/2006 5:18 AM, Heather Turner wrote: > I would like to follow up on another one of the documentation issues raised > in the discussion on function hints. Duncan mentioned that the R core were > working on preprocessing directives for .Rd files, which could possibly > include some sort of

Re: [Rd] Delphi (Pascal) headerfiles online | Excel

2006-06-20 Thread Sandro C. Goncales
Hans-Peter wrote: > Dear list > > Some time ago I told about the translation of the LGPL'ed R headerfiles to > Delphi. I am happy that most of them are translated now and the code, demo > and description is online (licensed under GPLv2): > http://treetron.googlepages.com > > Finaly ;) > I just

[Rd] Wish/suggestion: add output of citation() to package "manuals" (PR#9009)

2006-06-20 Thread gregor . gorjanc
Dear R core, influenced by recent panel discussion in Vienna I think that it would be nice to add package specific output of citation() function to package reference manuals. I think that apropriate place would be just after fields from DESCRIPTION file. This will be OK for CRAN, but not for local

Re: [Rd] [R] combining tables

2006-06-20 Thread Robin Hankin
On 19 Jun 2006, at 12:45, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > Try this: > > both <- c(x,y) > as.table(tapply(both, names(both), sum)) thanks for this, Gabor. The class of the objects I am manipulating in my package is c("count", "table"). It'd be nice to overload the "+" symbol so that I can add two co

[Rd] Documentation issues [Was: Function hints]

2006-06-20 Thread Heather Turner
I would like to follow up on another one of the documentation issues raised in the discussion on function hints. Duncan mentioned that the R core were working on preprocessing directives for .Rd files, which could possibly include some sort of include directive. I was wondering if a "includeexam

[Rd] Delphi (Pascal) headerfiles online | Excel

2006-06-20 Thread Hans-Peter
Dear list Some time ago I told about the translation of the LGPL'ed R headerfiles to Delphi. I am happy that most of them are translated now and the code, demo and description is online (licensed under GPLv2): http://treetron.googlepages.com I just annonced a native Excel reader/writer in R-help