Re: [Rd] documenation duplication and proposed automatic tools

2006-10-02 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
Hi. Far from complete, but some sketches on a solution is in the Rdoc-to-Rd translator of the R.oo package. I, the author, never made this very public because it uses a very ugly parser etc for it, but the basics is there and I use it to generate \usage{} statements and class hierarchies automati

[Rd] documenation duplication and proposed automatic tools

2006-10-02 Thread Ross Boylan
I've been looking at documenting S4 classes and methods, though I have a feeling many of these issues apply to S3 as well. My impression is that the documentation system requires or recommends creating basically the same information in several places. I'd like to explain that, see if I'm correct,