Package manpage DCF hooks
On Mon, 14 Nov 2005, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
On 11/14/05, Paul Roebuck <roebuck at mdanderson.org> wrote:
Was looking at what was output for <pkgname>-package.Rd and wondered if any there was any means (via macro, etc) to merge some of the same information with a template for my package manpage? As much (all?) of the generated information was already provided in the DESCRIPTION, I'd prefer not to have to update the information in multiple places. I'm thinking here that I could provide a template file "<pkgname>-package.Rd.in" and during build, the DCF information could be substituted appropriately and "<pkgname>-package.Rd" would be output. see also: promptPackage method
What I do is make my whatever-package.Rd page be the central page where one can get a list of all the other places one can look for info (rather than placing the info itself there). See, for example, library(dyn) package?dyn
Thanks for your reply. That gives me some additional ideas but still think being able to display DCF information and public function listing would be a nice thing to have. For example, 'dyn-package.Rd' repeats its DCF description. ---------------------------------------------------------- SIGSIG -- signature too long (core dumped)