[Rd] proposal for new FAQ entry?

2013-08-05 Thread Ben Bolker
"Why did read.table stop reading my file" is a pretty FAQ, e.g. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.r.general/297406/focus=297409 (I could come up with a lot more examples if someone wanted). The answer is typically "check for spurious comment characters and unmatched quotation marks" Does

Re: [Rd] proposal for new FAQ entry?

2013-08-05 Thread peter dalgaard
On Aug 5, 2013, at 15:31 , Ben Bolker wrote: > "Why did read.table stop reading my file" is a pretty FAQ, e.g. > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.r.general/297406/focus=297409 > > (I could come up with a lot more examples if someone wanted). > > The answer is typically "check for spur

Re: [Rd] proposal for new FAQ entry?

2013-08-05 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 2:53 PM, peter dalgaard wrote: >> Does this seem FAQ-worthy? Should I e-mail the FAQ maintainer and suggest >> it? > > Sure, as long as we never change the numbering of FAQ 7.31... > Not even to FAQ 7.31+1e-15 ? Barry __ R-dev

Re: [Rd] proposal for new FAQ entry?

2013-08-05 Thread peter dalgaard
On Aug 5, 2013, at 16:11 , Barry Rowlingson wrote: > On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 2:53 PM, peter dalgaard wrote: > >>> Does this seem FAQ-worthy? Should I e-mail the FAQ maintainer and suggest >>> it? >> >> Sure, as long as we never change the numbering of FAQ 7.31... >> > > Not even to FAQ 7.31+1

Re: [Rd] [R] Internalization of help pages

2013-08-05 Thread Tomáš Greif
My original idea was to start translating Rd files directly. It looks easy to just skip all the tags and translate rest (but maybe I'm wrong on this). I'm sure we can figure out better ways to do this later. To get an idea how big the documentation is, I've scraped all the .rd files from ftp://cra

Re: [Rd] [R] Internalization of help pages

2013-08-05 Thread Jim Lemon
On 08/06/2013 12:12 AM, Tomáš Greif wrote: My original idea was to start translating Rd files directly. It looks easy to just skip all the tags and translate rest (but maybe I'm wrong on this). I'm sure we can figure out better ways to do this later. ... That was essentially the way I did the tra