Re: [R-pkg-devel] Rd File Line Widths Not Suggested in Manual

2017-11-22 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 22/11/2017 1:00 AM, Dario Strbenac wrote: Good day, I often notice that some lines of code in many PDF manuals generated for CRAN packages run off the page. Perhaps the maximum number of characters per line should be stated in section 2.16 of Writing R Extensions. It would help package aut

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Rd File Line Widths Not Suggested in Manual

2017-11-22 Thread Heather Turner
Dear Dario, There is a note in the Guidelines for Rd files (https://developer.r-project.org/Rds.html) which is linked to in Sec 2.1 of R-ext. It could be useful for these guidelines could be incorporated in R-ext itself so people don't have to look in two different places, but I think some of the

[R-pkg-devel] Rd File Line Widths Not Suggested in Manual

2017-11-21 Thread Dario Strbenac
Good day, I often notice that some lines of code in many PDF manuals generated for CRAN packages run off the page. Perhaps the maximum number of characters per line should be stated in section 2.16 of Writing R Extensions. It would help package authors like me write better Rd files. --