> Duncan Murdoch
> on Wed, 13 Jul 2016 16:44:41 -0400 writes:
> On 13/07/2016 4:04 PM, Enrico Schumann wrote:
>> On Wed, 13 Jul 2016, "Boylan, Ross"
>> writes:
>>
>>> I have two questions, one substantive and one technical,
>>> about the relation between vign
One issue with integrating vignettes into the help system is that vignettes are
more likely to have material (figures, math) that renders poorly or not at all
as text.
I also mostly use ESS on terminal rather than graphical interface, and so
like the plain text version of things. OTOH, I used S
Well, I think it would be a headache, and suboptimal, to require vignettes
to be renderable as text. There are several issues including that not all
vignettes have an included "source" file; there are packages with important
vignettes which are only available as PDFs (or HTML). Also math and plot
>From a user perspective, I think a distinction needs to be made between
three things: help files, demos, and vignettes. I expect the help file for
functions to explain the API and (briefly) the methods implemented (with
references) and to have a few terse but useful examples in the Examples
sectio
On 15/07/2016 8:32 AM, Martin Maechler wrote:
Duncan Murdoch
on Wed, 13 Jul 2016 16:44:41 -0400 writes:
> On 13/07/2016 4:04 PM, Enrico Schumann wrote:
>> On Wed, 13 Jul 2016, "Boylan, Ross"
>> writes:
>>
>>> I have two questions, one substantive and one technical,
On 15/07/2016 3:02 PM, Tom Wainwright wrote:
From a user perspective, I think a distinction needs to be made between
three things: help files, demos, and vignettes. I expect the help file for
functions to explain the API and (briefly) the methods implemented (with
references) and to have a few t
