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On 4/18/2006 7:02 PM, Peter Ruckdeschel wrote:
Hi R-devels, would it be possible to enhance either promptPackage() or the default indexing mechanism for packages so that -- if it exists -- (the contents of) file <pkgname>-package.Rd is sorted first in * the .dvi / .pdf documentation file * the .chm documentation file * the package 00index.html documentation file
They already sort first in the last of those. I don't think it is really possible in the index of a .chm file; they are alphabetical sorting only, as far as I know. (The package topic does sort first in the main contents page, which is the same as the 00index.html file.) It probably makes sense in a .dvi/.pdf, but as far as I recall, at the time I thought those were produced by the shell script for Rd2dvi, and it just seemed like too much trouble to change the collation order there. In fact, now I look closer I see they are produced by the Perl script tools/pkg2tex.pl so it shouldn't be hard to port the changes I made to Rdlists.pm over. I'll take a look. Duncan Murdoch
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So far I found the following "hand-made" solution for me:
(1) rename the <pkgname>-package.Rd file to, say,
0<pkgname>-package.Rd
(2) change the \name -field to
\name{(<pkgname>-package)}
(note the parentheses in order to sort this file before
any operators like "+", "-" etc..)
This is probably not quite the way it should be, but
at least it works under my standard-settings.
A more refined strategy would probably also take
into account something like a Collate field in
the DESCRIPTION field.
What is the opinion of R-Core to this question?
Thank you already
Peter
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