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).

[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