On 4/19/2006 2:11 PM, Peter Ruckdeschel wrote: > On 4/19/2006 1:49 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > >> On 4/18/2006 7:02 PM, Peter Ruckdeschel wrote: >>> would it be possible to enhance either promptPackage() >>> or the default indexing mechanism for packages >>> so that -- if it exists -- (the contents of) file >>> <pkgname>-package.Rd is sorted first in >>> >>> * the .dvi / .pdf documentation file >>> * the .chm documentation file >>> * the package 00index.html documentation file > >> They already sort first in the last of those. I don't think it is >> really possible in the index of a .chm file; they are alphabetical >> sorting only, as far as I know. (The package topic does sort first in >> the main contents page, which is the same as the 00index.html file.) > > Yes, you are right: the first two cases are already settled > in a completely satisfying way [even with "+","-"-type methods!]. > > Sorry to have stirred you up --- I should have tried first. > >> It probably makes sense in a .dvi/.pdf, > > I tried out with an example now: > at least for this case my request still applies ... > >> but as far as I recall, at the time I thought those were produced >> by the shell script for Rd2dvi, and it just seemed like too much trouble >> to change the collation order there. >> In fact, now I look closer I see they are produced by the Perl >> script tools/pkg2tex.pl so it shouldn't be hard to port the changes I >> made to Rdlists.pm over. I'll take a look. > > would be very nice; thank you very much
Done now in R-devel; after the 2.3.0 release I'll port it over to R-patched as well. (In the process of doing this I noticed that grDevices-package wasn't making it into the reference manual due to a bug; I fixed that too.) Duncan Murdoch ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel