Re: [R-pkg-devel] relation between vignettes and help files

2016-07-18 Thread Martin Maechler
of info between help files and > vignettes? > Ross > > From: Martin Maechler [maech...@stat.math.ethz.ch] > Sent: Friday, July 15, 2016 5:32 AM > To: Duncan Murdoch > Cc: Enrico Schumann; Boylan, Ross; r-package-devel@r-proje

Re: [R-pkg-devel] relation between vignettes and help files

2016-07-15 Thread Duncan Murdoch
, Ross; r-package-devel@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R-pkg-devel] relation between vignettes and help files .. It is even worse, isn't it: Nowadays html help pages are (almost) always created *dynamically* via R's help() or help.start(); For my setup of 1000s of packages in my libraries in .li

Re: [R-pkg-devel] relation between vignettes and help files

2016-07-15 Thread Tom Wainwright
ch] > Sent: Friday, July 15, 2016 5:32 AM > To: Duncan Murdoch > Cc: Enrico Schumann; Boylan, Ross; r-package-devel@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R-pkg-devel] relation between vignettes and help files > > .. > It is even worse, isn't it: Nowadays html help pages are (almost) &g

Re: [R-pkg-devel] relation between vignettes and help files

2016-07-15 Thread Kasper Daniel Hansen
oylan, Ross; r-package-devel@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R-pkg-devel] relation between vignettes and help files > > .. > It is even worse, isn't it: Nowadays html help pages are (almost) > always created *dynamically* via R's help() or help.start(); > For my setup of 1000s o

Re: [R-pkg-devel] relation between vignettes and help files

2016-07-15 Thread Boylan, Ross
To: Duncan Murdoch Cc: Enrico Schumann; Boylan, Ross; r-package-devel@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R-pkg-devel] relation between vignettes and help files .. It is even worse, isn't it: Nowadays html help pages are (almost) always created *dynamically* via R's help() or help.start(); For my setup

Re: [R-pkg-devel] relation between vignettes and help files

2016-07-13 Thread Duncan Murdoch
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 vignettes and help files. By "help files" I mean the regular .Rd files. Substantively, to what

Re: [R-pkg-devel] relation between vignettes and help files

2016-07-13 Thread Enrico Schumann
On Wed, 13 Jul 2016, "Boylan, Ross" writes: > I have two questions, one substantive and one technical, about the > relation between vignettes and help files. By "help files" I mean the > regular .Rd files. > > Substantively, to what extent should material be duplicated