On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 4:06 AM, Duncan Murdoch murd...@stats.uwo.ca wrote:
On 13/11/2009 7:39 AM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
Its also difficult to know about demos unless you specifically issue a
demo(package = mypackage) command. It would be nice if these were
listed too.
This is in
On 13/11/2009 3:37 AM, Henrik Bengtsson wrote:
Hi,
right now it is actually a bit tricky to locate and view the NEWS and
the CHANGES files, especially if you are a beginning and don't even
know that you are supposed to look for them.
I'd like to recommend that links to (local) NEWS and CHANGES
On 13/11/2009 7:39 AM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
Its also difficult to know about demos unless you specifically issue a
demo(package = mypackage) command. It would be nice if these were
listed too.
This is in R-devel now.
Note that the NEWS and/or ChangeLog file are listed on the package's
Hi,
right now it is actually a bit tricky to locate and view the NEWS and
the CHANGES files, especially if you are a beginning and don't even
know that you are supposed to look for them.
I'd like to recommend that links to (local) NEWS and CHANGES are added
to the help.start() overview pages.
Its also difficult to know about demos unless you specifically issue a
demo(package = mypackage) command. It would be nice if these were
listed too.
Note that the NEWS and/or ChangeLog file are listed on the package's
CRAN page such as:
http://cran.r-project.org/package=zoo
but the demos
On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:37:31 +0100 Henrik Bengtsson
h...@stat.berkeley.edu wrote:
I'd like to recommend that links to (local) NEWS and CHANGES are added
to the help.start() overview pages. help(NEWS)/help(CHANGE LOG)
and help(CHANGES) could display/refer to them as well.
Are you talking of
On 11/13/2009 10:52 AM, Karl Ove Hufthammer wrote:
On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:37:31 +0100 Henrik Bengtsson
h...@stat.berkeley.edu wrote:
I'd like to recommend that links to (local) NEWS and CHANGES are added
to the help.start() overview pages. help(NEWS)/help(CHANGE LOG)
and help(CHANGES) could
In the case of R itself and the Windows platform this might usefully
be placed into the Rgui help menu.
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 8:44 AM, Henrik Bengtsson h...@stat.berkeley.edu
wrote:
Please note my initial comment that it is hard for newcomers to find
or even know about the existence of NEWS
On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:31:10 +0100 Romain Francois
romain.franc...@dbmail.com wrote:
Or have I overlooked something, and a function for this already exists?
?news
I know about the 'news' function, but that doesn't *show* the NEWS or
CHANGES file for a package, at least not in any useful
