Re: [Rd] Wishlist: Vignettes on CRAN

2006-05-24 Thread Friedrich Leisch
> On Mon, 22 May 2006 21:42:34 -0700, > Seth Falcon (SF) wrote: > "Gabor Grothendieck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> This would certainly be nice. >> >> Note that the BioConductor package vignettes are online: >> http://www.bioconductor.org/docs/vignettes.html >> but there is

Re: [Rd] Wishlist: Vignettes on CRAN

2006-05-23 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 12:21:18AM -0400, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > I currently put my NEWS file in ./inst as the build procedure will Yes, but for what I suggested we need standardized location as well as format to permit automatic extraction, formatting, processing, ... off-line. For just one

Re: [Rd] Wishlist: Vignettes on CRAN

2006-05-23 Thread Kurt Hornik
> McGehee, Robert writes: > I was recently browsing through CRAN's Finance task view to remind > myself of the publicly available packages relevant to my work. As the > reference manuals are all online, I am able to flip through the > available functions to get an idea of the package's scope b

Re: [Rd] Wishlist: Vignettes on CRAN

2006-05-23 Thread Kurt Hornik
> Dirk Eddelbuettel writes: > On 22 May 2006 at 23:24, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > | This would certainly be nice. > | > | Note that the BioConductor package vignettes are online: > |http://www.bioconductor.org/docs/vignettes.html > | but there is nothing comparable for CRAN. > | > | In

Re: [Rd] Wishlist: Vignettes on CRAN

2006-05-22 Thread Seth Falcon
"Gabor Grothendieck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This would certainly be nice. > > Note that the BioConductor package vignettes are online: >http://www.bioconductor.org/docs/vignettes.html > but there is nothing comparable for CRAN. That page is actually out of date (we'll be updating it re

Re: [Rd] Wishlist: Vignettes on CRAN

2006-05-22 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
I currently put my NEWS file in ./inst as the build procedure will automatically copy that to the main directory of the built distribution. Thus it appears in the installed distribution so at least one can get it without also downloading and unpacking the source. I also put a note in mypkg-package

Re: [Rd] Wishlist: Vignettes on CRAN

2006-05-22 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 22 May 2006 at 23:24, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: | This would certainly be nice. | | Note that the BioConductor package vignettes are online: |http://www.bioconductor.org/docs/vignettes.html | but there is nothing comparable for CRAN. | | In some cases the package has a home page mentioned

Re: [Rd] Wishlist: Vignettes on CRAN

2006-05-22 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
This would certainly be nice. Note that the BioConductor package vignettes are online: http://www.bioconductor.org/docs/vignettes.html but there is nothing comparable for CRAN. In some cases the package has a home page mentioned in the URL field of the DESCRIPTION file and following that can s

Re: [Rd] Wishlist: Vignettes on CRAN

2006-05-22 Thread Spencer Graves
Might it be feasible to just bundle any vignettes with the help file? Wouldn't this make them more accessible to, e.g., RSiteSearch? Just a thought. Spencer Graves McGehee, Robert wrote: > I was recently browsing through CRAN's Finance task view to remind > myself of the publicly available pack

[Rd] Wishlist: Vignettes on CRAN

2006-05-22 Thread McGehee, Robert
I was recently browsing through CRAN's Finance task view to remind myself of the publicly available packages relevant to my work. As the reference manuals are all online, I am able to flip through the available functions to get an idea of the package's scope before downloading. That said, many au