[Rd] splinefun gives incorrect derivs when extrapolating to the left (PR#13132)

2008-10-06 Thread Greg . Snow
This is a low priority bug that has been around for a while, but I came acr= oss it again while alpha testing 2.8. The resulting function for splinefun gives incorrect deriv values when x is= less than the smallest x-value used to create the function (at least in on= e circumstance), but does the

Re: [Rd] ?foo to fall back to help(package="foo") [Was: why is \alias{anRpackage} not mandatory?]

2008-10-06 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Oct 6, 2008, at 11:18 , Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 10/6/2008 11:00 AM, Simon Urbanek wrote: On Oct 6, 2008, at 8:47 , Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 06/10/2008 8:06 AM, Thomas Petzoldt wrote: Duncan Murdoch wrote: Thomas Petzoldt wrote: Dear R developers, if one uses package.skeleton() to crea

Re: [Rd] Bug with message if there is no documentation; R2.8alpha Win32 (PR#13131)

2008-10-06 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Mon, 6 Oct 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the latest R 2.8 alpha for Win32, if either of the commands are typed: help("erfc") .. or .. ?erfc the result is: No documentation for 'erfc' in specified packages and libraries: you could try '??erfc' This should be: 'help.search("erfc")', as

Re: [Rd] ?foo to fall back to help(package="foo") [Was: why is \alias{anRpackage} not mandatory?]

2008-10-06 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 10/6/2008 11:00 AM, Simon Urbanek wrote: On Oct 6, 2008, at 8:47 , Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 06/10/2008 8:06 AM, Thomas Petzoldt wrote: Duncan Murdoch wrote: Thomas Petzoldt wrote: Dear R developers, if one uses package.skeleton() to create a new package, then a file anRpackage.Rd with

[Rd] ?foo to fall back to help(package="foo") [Was: why is \alias{anRpackage} not mandatory?]

2008-10-06 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Oct 6, 2008, at 8:47 , Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 06/10/2008 8:06 AM, Thomas Petzoldt wrote: Duncan Murdoch wrote: Thomas Petzoldt wrote: Dear R developers, if one uses package.skeleton() to create a new package, then a file anRpackage.Rd with the following entries is prepared: \name{a

[Rd] Bug with message if there is no documentation; R2.8alpha Win32 (PR#13131)

2008-10-06 Thread mwtoews
In the latest R 2.8 alpha for Win32, if either of the commands are typed: > help("erfc") .. or .. > ?erfc the result is: No documentation for 'erfc' in specified packages and libraries: you could try '??erfc' This should be: 'help.search("erfc")', as shown in R 2.7.2 Apologies if this has already

Re: [Rd] why is \alias{anRpackage} not mandatory?

2008-10-06 Thread Thomas Petzoldt
hadley wickham wrote: It may not be much work for you, but I find any additional requirements to the package format to be a real pain. I have ~10 packages on CRAN and having to go through and add this extra information all at once is a big hassle. R releases tend to happen in the middle of the

Re: [Rd] why is \alias{anRpackage} not mandatory?

2008-10-06 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 10/6/2008 9:55 AM, hadley wickham wrote: It may not be much work for you, but I find any additional requirements to the package format to be a real pain. I have ~10 packages on CRAN and having to go through and add this extra information all at once is a big hassle. R releases tend to happen

Re: [Rd] why is \alias{anRpackage} not mandatory?

2008-10-06 Thread hadley wickham
>> It may not be much work for you, but I find any additional >> requirements to the package format to be a real pain. I have ~10 >> packages on CRAN and having to go through and add this extra >> information all at once is a big hassle. R releases tend to happen in >> the middle of the US academ

Re: [Rd] why is \alias{anRpackage} not mandatory?

2008-10-06 Thread Thomas Petzoldt
Dear Hadley, thank you very much for your comments. hadley wickham wrote: - there are lots of packages without one, so this would create a lot of work for people to add them. No, I don't think that this is too much work. Positively speaking, it's one small contribution to bring more light into

Re: [Rd] why is \alias{anRpackage} not mandatory?

2008-10-06 Thread Thomas Petzoldt
Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 06/10/2008 8:06 AM, Thomas Petzoldt wrote: Duncan Murdoch wrote: Thomas Petzoldt wrote: Dear R developers, if one uses package.skeleton() to create a new package, then a file anRpackage.Rd with the following entries is prepared: \name{anRpackage-package} \alias{anR

Re: [Rd] why is \alias{anRpackage} not mandatory?

2008-10-06 Thread hadley wickham
> You are right, .Rd has its limitations, but as you say, there is nothing > better available in the moment. (BTW: I heard rumours at useR! about > discussions on a meta documentation format? Is there any public information > about this??) What do you mean by meta documentation format? Do you mea

Re: [Rd] why is \alias{anRpackage} not mandatory?

2008-10-06 Thread hadley wickham
>> - there are lots of packages without one, so this would create a lot of >> work for people to add them. > > No, I don't think that this is too much work. Positively speaking, it's one > small contribution to bring more light into the exponentially growing > haystack. It may not be much work for

Re: [Rd] why is \alias{anRpackage} not mandatory?

2008-10-06 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 06/10/2008 8:06 AM, Thomas Petzoldt wrote: Duncan Murdoch wrote: Thomas Petzoldt wrote: Dear R developers, if one uses package.skeleton() to create a new package, then a file anRpackage.Rd with the following entries is prepared: \name{anRpackage-package} \alias{anRpackage-package} \alias

Re: [Rd] why is \alias{anRpackage} not mandatory?

2008-10-06 Thread Thomas Petzoldt
Duncan Murdoch wrote: Thomas Petzoldt wrote: Dear R developers, if one uses package.skeleton() to create a new package, then a file anRpackage.Rd with the following entries is prepared: \name{anRpackage-package} \alias{anRpackage-package} \alias{anRpackage} \docType{package} Packages creat

Re: [Rd] why is \alias{anRpackage} not mandatory?

2008-10-06 Thread Duncan Murdoch
Thomas Petzoldt wrote: Dear R developers, if one uses package.skeleton() to create a new package, then a file anRpackage.Rd with the following entries is prepared: \name{anRpackage-package} \alias{anRpackage-package} \alias{anRpackage} \docType{package} Packages created this way have a defi

[Rd] why is \alias{anRpackage} not mandatory?

2008-10-06 Thread Thomas Petzoldt
Dear R developers, if one uses package.skeleton() to create a new package, then a file anRpackage.Rd with the following entries is prepared: \name{anRpackage-package} \alias{anRpackage-package} \alias{anRpackage} \docType{package} Packages created this way have a definite entry or overview p