patch to add a menu item in Rgui for RSiteSearch
Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Liaw, Andy wrote:
Please consider adding the following to the next R release (I understand that it's too late for R-2.1.0). It adds the menu item `Search R Site' in the `Help' menu in Rgui (which calls RSiteSearch() on the input string).
Can you or someone else think of a better name? That sounds like it searches www.r-project.org. I think even 'R Sites Search' would be better. Yes, it is too late: we need lead time for the translators these days. (RGui has Chinese, German, Italian and Japanese menus available.)
I'd suggest "R help online...".
But, it is not 'help online': it is searching docs and past help.
That's "help" in the Windows Help-menu sense, but the important word is "online". Some alternatives: "R online..." (sounds like it runs R online, but maybe the context is enough) "Search online..." (easily confused with a general Google search) "R sites online..." In any case, the 2 or 3 words in the menu aren't going to be the only clue to the user: the dialog box should give a line or two describing what will happen when you do the search. Duncan Murdoch
After the release, I think this should go into R-patched. Do we have tools to tell the translators all the new strings that need translating, or should they be explicitly informed about such a thing?
Yes, msgmerge/msgfmt tells them. The message catalogues change almost daily as people add features.