[Rd] Documentation issues [Was: Function hints]

2006-06-20 Thread Heather Turner
I would like to follow up on another one of the documentation issues raised in the discussion on function hints. Duncan mentioned that the R core were working on preprocessing directives for .Rd files, which could possibly include some sort of include directive. I was wondering if a

Re: [Rd] [R] combining tables

2006-06-20 Thread Robin Hankin
On 19 Jun 2006, at 12:45, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: Try this: both - c(x,y) as.table(tapply(both, names(both), sum)) thanks for this, Gabor. The class of the objects I am manipulating in my package is c(count, table). It'd be nice to overload the + symbol so that I can add two count

[Rd] Wish/suggestion: add output of citation() to package manuals (PR#9009)

2006-06-20 Thread gregor . gorjanc
Dear R core, influenced by recent panel discussion in Vienna I think that it would be nice to add package specific output of citation() function to package reference manuals. I think that apropriate place would be just after fields from DESCRIPTION file. This will be OK for CRAN, but not for

Re: [Rd] Documentation issues [Was: Function hints]

2006-06-20 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 6/20/2006 5:18 AM, Heather Turner wrote: I would like to follow up on another one of the documentation issues raised in the discussion on function hints. Duncan mentioned that the R core were working on preprocessing directives for .Rd files, which could possibly include some sort of

Re: [Rd] [R] combining tables

2006-06-20 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On 6/20/06, Robin Hankin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 19 Jun 2006, at 12:45, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: Try this: both - c(x,y) as.table(tapply(both, names(both), sum)) thanks for this, Gabor. The class of the objects I am manipulating in my package is c(count, table). It'd be nice

Re: [Rd] Wish/suggestion: add output of citation() to package manuals (PR#9009)

2006-06-20 Thread Friedrich Leisch
On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 12:22:42 +0200 (CEST), gregor gorjanc (gg) wrote: Dear R core, influenced by recent panel discussion in Vienna I think that it would be nice to add package specific output of citation() function to package reference manuals. I think that apropriate place would be

Re: [Rd] [R] Function hints

2006-06-20 Thread hadley wickham
I think it's bad to document dissimilar functions in the same file, but similar related functions *should* be documented together. Not doing this just adds to the burden of documenting them, and the risk of modifying only part of the documentation so that it is inconsistent. The user also gets

Re: [Rd] [R] Function hints

2006-06-20 Thread hadley wickham
For me, it's been extremely helpful to keep function documentation together during editing-- it greatly increases the chance that I will actually update the doco when I change the code, rather than putting it off until I've forgotten what I did. Also, writing Rd format is a nightmare (again,

[Rd] minor typos in ?which and ?apropos (PR#9013)

2006-06-20 Thread bolker
find . -name *.Rd | xargs grep who's these should both be whose ./src/library/base/man/which.Rd: a \code{\link{dim}} attribute), the result is a matrix who's rows each (also consider whose rows are each the indices ... rather than whose rows each are the indices ...)