Re: [Rd] Suggestion: Add links to NEWS and CHANGES on help.start() page

2009-11-16 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 4:06 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On 13/11/2009 7:39 AM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: >> >> Its also difficult to know about demos unless you specifically issue a >> demo(package = "mypackage") command.  It would be nice if these were >> listed too. > > This is in R-devel now.

Re: [Rd] Suggestion: Add links to NEWS and CHANGES on help.start() page

2009-11-15 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 13/11/2009 7:39 AM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: Its also difficult to know about demos unless you specifically issue a demo(package = "mypackage") command. It would be nice if these were listed too. This is in R-devel now. Note that the NEWS and/or ChangeLog file are listed on the package's

Re: [Rd] Suggestion: Add links to NEWS and CHANGES on help.start() page

2009-11-15 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 13/11/2009 3:37 AM, Henrik Bengtsson wrote: Hi, right now it is actually a bit tricky to locate and view the NEWS and the CHANGES files, especially if you are a beginning and don't even know that you are supposed to look for them. I'd like to recommend that links to (local) NEWS and CHANGES

Re: [Rd] Suggestion: Add links to NEWS and CHANGES on help.start() page

2009-11-13 Thread Karl Ove Hufthammer
On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:31:10 +0100 Romain Francois wrote: > > Or have I overlooked something, and a function for this already exists? > > ?news I know about the 'news' function, but that doesn't *show* the NEWS or CHANGES file for a package, at least not in any useful format. The feature I'd

Re: [Rd] Suggestion: Add links to NEWS and CHANGES on help.start() page

2009-11-13 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
In the case of R itself and the Windows platform this might usefully be placed into the Rgui help menu. On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 8:44 AM, Henrik Bengtsson wrote: > Please note my initial comment that it is hard for newcomers to find > or even know about the existence of NEWS (and worse CHANGES) [

Re: [Rd] Suggestion: Add links to NEWS and CHANGES on help.start() page

2009-11-13 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
Please note my initial comment that it is hard for newcomers to find or even know about the existence of NEWS (and worse CHANGES) [for R itself]. Yet, we often imply that they should have read those before reporting problems. /Henrik On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Romain Francois wrote: > On

Re: [Rd] Suggestion: Add links to NEWS and CHANGES on help.start() page

2009-11-13 Thread Romain Francois
On 11/13/2009 10:52 AM, Karl Ove Hufthammer wrote: On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:37:31 +0100 Henrik Bengtsson wrote: I'd like to recommend that links to (local) NEWS and CHANGES are added to the help.start() overview pages. help("NEWS")/help("CHANGE LOG") and help("CHANGES") could display/refer to

Re: [Rd] Suggestion: Add links to NEWS and CHANGES on help.start() page

2009-11-13 Thread Karl Ove Hufthammer
On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:37:31 +0100 Henrik Bengtsson wrote: > I'd like to recommend that links to (local) NEWS and CHANGES are added > to the help.start() overview pages. help("NEWS")/help("CHANGE LOG") > and help("CHANGES") could display/refer to them as well. Are you talking of the NEWS and CH

Re: [Rd] Suggestion: Add links to NEWS and CHANGES on help.start() page

2009-11-13 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Its also difficult to know about demos unless you specifically issue a demo(package = "mypackage") command. It would be nice if these were listed too. Note that the NEWS and/or ChangeLog file are listed on the package's CRAN page such as: http://cran.r-project.org/package=zoo but the demos a

[Rd] Suggestion: Add links to NEWS and CHANGES on help.start() page

2009-11-13 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
Hi, right now it is actually a bit tricky to locate and view the NEWS and the CHANGES files, especially if you are a beginning and don't even know that you are supposed to look for them. I'd like to recommend that links to (local) NEWS and CHANGES are added to the help.start() overview pages. he