Suggestion: help(<package name>)

Henrik Bengtsson writes:

I would like to suggest a standard where all packages provide an Rd page 
with the same name (or aliased) as the name of package so that 
help(<package name>) or ?<package name> is always here. This especially 
of interest to large packages with a large package index. This page 
could explain the package in general and gives some hints on how to 
start - not like extensive vignettes, but just to get started, e.g. list 
the "most important" functions.  

But isn't that just what vignettes are there for?

And I think nobody has said that vignettes should be "extensive", and if 
they end up being so, that is a problem of the package author, and 
probably would end up being the same with yet another form of documentation.

Best regards
   Wolfgang

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Wolfgang Huber
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