Re: [Rd] Misuse of $$ in Rd files

2008-12-19 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Fri, 19 Dec 2008, Peter Dalgaard wrote: Prof Brian Ripley wrote: 'Writing R Extensions' tells you that $ needs to be escaped in Rd files outside \code and similar. So I was surprised to find that ca 80 CRAN packages have constructions like (from ISwR) \item{\code{folate}}{ a numeri

Re: [Rd] Misuse of $$ in Rd files

2008-12-19 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Prof Brian Ripley wrote: 'Writing R Extensions' tells you that $ needs to be escaped in Rd files outside \code and similar. So I was surprised to find that ca 80 CRAN packages have constructions like (from ISwR) \item{\code{folate}}{ a numeric vector, folate concentration ($\mu$g/l).

Re: [Rd] gregexpr - match overlap mishandled (PR#13391)

2008-12-19 Thread Wacek Kusnierczyk
Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > Please do your own homework: the help page says > > For 'gregexpr' a list of the same length as 'text' each element of > which is an integer vector as in 'regexpr', except that the > starting positions of every (disjoint) match are given. >

[Rd] Misuse of $$ in Rd files

2008-12-19 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
'Writing R Extensions' tells you that $ needs to be escaped in Rd files outside \code and similar. So I was surprised to find that ca 80 CRAN packages have constructions like (from ISwR) \item{\code{folate}}{ a numeric vector, folate concentration ($\mu$g/l). } This does not render se

Re: [Rd] rscproxy version conflict

2008-12-19 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Thu, 18 Dec 2008, meerman wrote: After installing the package 'rscproxy' downloaded from the CRAN server, I get the following error message from R 2.8.0 about a version conflict : I see no 'error message' nor no 'confict'. I see a *warning* which you could stop by using 2.8.1 RC or by upda