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 R-devel now.
I just got the Windows version. For others information, the main HTML help page - help.start() - now ends with sections: -- Miscellaneous Material -- About R \t Authors \t Resources License \t Frequently Asked Questions \t Thanks \t NEWS -- Material specific to the Windows port -- CHANGES \t Windows FAQ The links to the NEWS and the CHANGES are new. Thanks a bunch Duncan - beautiful and useful. /Henrik > >> 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 are not listed even there. > > The structure is in place for displaying package news, but it doesn't > display yet. I think Kurt Hornik is working on the actual display. > > Duncan Murdoch > >> >> On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 3:37 AM, Henrik Bengtsson <h...@stat.berkeley.edu> >> 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 are added >>> to the help.start() overview pages. help("NEWS")/help("CHANGE LOG") >>> and help("CHANGES") could display/refer to them as well. >>> >>> /Henrik >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >>> >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
