Deepayan Sarkar wrote: > On 6/4/07, Seth Falcon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Friedrich Leisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> Looks good to me, and certainly something worth being added to R. >>> >>> 2 quick (related) comments: >>> >>> 1) I am not sure if we want to include links to the Latex-Sources by >>> default, those might confuse unsuspecting novices a lot. Perhaps >>> make those optional using an argument to browseVignettes(), which >>> is FALSE by default? >> I agree that the Rnw could confuse folks. But I'm not sure it needs >> to be hidden or turned off by default... If the .R file was also >> included then it would be less confusing I suspect as the curious >> could deduce what Rnw is about by triangulation. >> >>> 2) Instead links to .Rnw files we may want to include links to the R >>> code -> should we R CMD INSTALL a tangled version of each vignette >>> such that we can link to it? Of course it is redundant information >>> given the .Rnw, but we also have the help pages in several formats >>> ready. >> Including, by default, links to the tangled .R code seems like a >> really nice idea. I think a lot of users who find vignettes don't >> realize that all of the code used to generate the entire document is >> available to them -- I just had a question from someone who wanted to >> know how to make a plot that appeared in a vignette, for example. > > I agree that having a Stangled .R file would be a great idea (among > other things, it would have the complete code, which many PDFs will > not). > > I don't have a strong opinion either way about linking to the .Rnw > file. It should definitely be there if the PDF file is absent (e.g. > for grid, and other packages installed with --no-vignettes, which I > always do for local installation). Maybe we can keep them, but change > the name to something more scary than "source", e.g. "LaTeX/Noweb > source".
I would very much prefer to keep the source, with some name, scary or not... > > -Deepayan > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > -- Robert Gentleman, PhD Program in Computational Biology Division of Public Health Sciences Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center 1100 Fairview Ave. N, M2-B876 PO Box 19024 Seattle, Washington 98109-1024 206-667-7700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel