Re: [Rd] feature request: multi-language support

2004-01-17 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
I wondered what was meant by `manuals', but I assumed it was not the help system. Some packages do have manuals, usually installed from inst/doc (and there is a vignette mechanism to provide manuals of this type). If you do mean help pages, there are questions of whether more than one language

Re: [Rd] feature request: multi-language support

2004-01-16 Thread Byron Ellis
Perhaps something like this? /help/ though, perhaps, you might actually want a more general //help,html,etc and then a locale option that specifies the preference of language availability (someone might prefer german, then french and then english or something like)? On Jan 15, 2004, at 6:0

[Rd] feature request: multi-language support

2004-01-15 Thread Peter Kleiweg
Could it be possible for packages to have manuals in multiple languages? I'm not saying all manuals should be in multiple languages, but I think there should be a mechanism for package writers to add manuals in multiple languages, if they think it useful. -- Peter Kleiweg _