faqs

Another possibility is to just place it at the end of the vignette.
That is where it is in the proto package:

http://cran.r-project.org/doc/vignettes/proto/proto.pdf

Package documentation is already quite scattered and adding
a faq() command would add just one more thing one has
to do.  Here are some places one might look already for
documentation:

package?mypackage
vignette(...)
library(help = mypackage)
?mycommand
home page
WISHLIST file
NEWS file
THANKS file
svn log

I personally would give a much higher priority to a standardized
place to find change information.  Some packages provide it.
Some don't which is very frustrating since you see a new version
and have no idea what has changed.  If they do document it you
often have to download the source just to get at the change information.

An extremely modest proposal:

It would be nice if packages could have a FAQ and if

       faq(package.name)

would produce this faq.  And if, by default

       faq()
       FAQ()

would produce the admirable R faq...  Apologies in advance
if there is already a mechanism like this, but help.search()
didn't reveal anything.

url:    www.econ.uiuc.edu/~roger                Roger Koenker
email   rkoenker at uiuc.edu                       Department of Economics
vox:    217-333-4558                            University of Illinois
fax:    217-244-6678                            Champaign, IL 61820

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