Re: [Rd] Non-GPL packages for R

2009-09-11 Thread rudjer
Comrades, When talk turns to the purity of the revolution, and purge of packages then the guillotine can't be far behind. We all remember Lenin berating the "renegade Kautsky" for his "pragmatism," and we know where that led... So let me put in a good word for pragmatism, and incidentally for s

Re: [Rd] Viewing pdfs from inst/doc

2009-09-05 Thread rudjer
Thanks Romain and Barry for help with this. I've written a faux.vignette function somewhat along the lines of Romain's suggestion. Roger Koenker -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Viewing-pdfs-from-inst-doc-tp25302477p25310670.html Sent from the R devel mailing list arc

[Rd] Viewing pdfs from inst/doc

2009-09-04 Thread rudjer
Writing R extensions says: In addition to the help files in Rd format, R packages allow the inclusion of documents in arbitrary other formats. The standard location for these is subdirectory inst/doc of a source package, the contents will be copied to subdirectory doc when the package is instal