On 31/03/2010 6:38 PM, Seth Falcon wrote:
On 3/31/10 1:12 PM, Christophe Genolini wrote:
> Hi the list,
> I am writing a package that happen to not be compatible with linux
> because I did not know that the function "savePlot" was available only
> on windows. Is there a list of "incompatible" function? How can I get
> this kind of information?
One way is to obtain a copy of the R sources and then grep the Rd files
for '#ifdef'.
I don't claim this is convenient.
There has been discussion, and I believe general consensus, that we'd
like to eliminate the conditional documentation. This requires editing
the Rd files to make the contents sensible (you can't just remove the
#ifdef's). Patches along these lines would be welcome.
Producing those patches would be a lot of work even to incorporate, let
alone write. Another possibility is some sort of markup in the display
to indicate platform-specific bits. That would be a lot easier to
implement; the hard part is the design.
We have to design for 4 different output formats: LaTeX, HTML, plain
text, and executable example code. We need to design for help files
that display differently on different platforms, and for help files that
only exist on a subset of the platforms.
Duncan Murdoch
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