A good article is: http://www.statistik.lmu.de/~leisch/Sweave/Sweave-Rnews-2003-2.pdf
Max On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 9:18 AM, Matt Shotwell <shotw...@musc.edu> wrote: > Alex, > > Vignettes are optional supplemental documentation. That is, they are in > addition to the required boilerplate documentation for R functions and > datasets. Vignettes are written in the spirit of sharing knowledge, and > assisting new users in learning the purpose and use of a package. > > Maybe the best place to start is simply to read one, or a few. The `zoo` > package has a few, for example here: > > http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/zoo/index.html > > The technical details of vignettes, and how to write one are contained > in the `Writing R Extensions` manual: > > http://cran.r-project.org/manuals.html > > -Matt > > On Mon, 2010-07-26 at 07:55 -0400, Alaios wrote: >> I am trying to find a simple R guide that explain what a vignette is but so >> far >> I didnt make any progress. I tried to search inside R's built in help.start() >> but it only returns results how to see vignettes. >> >> So could you please tell me what a vignette is and if you can also could you >> give some simple guide that I can always use to read about these things? >> >> Best Regards >> Alex >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > -- > Matthew S. Shotwell > Graduate Student > Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology > Medical University of South Carolina > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- Max ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.