[Rd] suggestion: mention how to format DOIs in "Writing R Extensions"

Hi Everyone, I recently has some problems formatting DOIs correctly in a pkg submitted to CRAN. Kurt kindly informed me that in the man pages they must be \{doi:XXX} (noted in https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-exts.html#User_002ddefined-macros) and in the DESCRIPTION they mus

Re: [Rd] Windows iconv() "failure" in certain locales

On 29.06.2017 12:27, Martin Maechler wrote: Uwe Ligges on Wed, 28 Jun 2017 18:45:59 +0200 writes: > On 27.06.2017 17:36, Martin Maechler wrote: >> This is a continuation of the R-devel thread with subject >> "suggestion to fix packageDescription() for Windows users" :

Re: [Rd] regexec() bug in R 3.4.0

> Weeks, Nathan > on Wed, 28 Jun 2017 17:11:01 + writes: > Hi, > > In R 3.4.0, the "Pattern Matching and Replacement" documentation that > describes regexec(), gregexpr(), etc. states that the "text" argument to > regexec is a character vector, "or an object which can be coerce

Re: [Rd] Windows iconv() "failure" in certain locales

> Uwe Ligges > on Wed, 28 Jun 2017 18:45:59 +0200 writes: > On 27.06.2017 17:36, Martin Maechler wrote: >> This is a continuation of the R-devel thread with subject >> "suggestion to fix packageDescription() for Windows users" : >> >> As I said there, a patch shou