Re: [Rd] Checking your package's help files

2008-12-11 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
The check summaries now available at http://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_summary.html will indicate most of the problems being detected in CRAN packages: look at the log (click on the link) for your package in the first or second column. On Sun, 7 Dec 2008, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: I

Re: [Rd] Checking your package's help files

2008-12-07 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Prof Brian Ripley wrote: 3) Grep the installed help for internal constructs, e.g. grep nornal-bracket /help/* I see that you're following the time-honored empirical law, that every spelling flame contains at least one misteak itself... -- O__ Peter Dalgaard Ă˜ster Farim

[Rd] Checking your package's help files

2008-12-07 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
It seems that many package authors do not proofread the help installed with their packages. The Rd converter is not a parser, and it will silently produce incorrect results on incorrect input (and some correct input). Here are a few hints about some common errors: 1) When you run R CMD check