R-alpha: S-help (and S-help-to-R-help)
Ross Ihaka writes:
Before you invest too much effort in fancy conversion scripts ... I really want to change the documentation format to something based on SGML - this should be much easier to parse than the present m4 macro-based stuff, and allow use to use more sophisticated tools for the construction and processing of documentation.
Nothing fancy. Thomas' script has a few (minor) problems, and I'd like to fix them.
Like much of R, the present solution was just a temporary hack ... But it is something which is getting to the top of the list.
Any filter you create should have a back-end which could be (easily) adapted to a new format.
Hmm. I think it's more like looking into the S help format to figure out what is going on. The new one which converts to SGML will perhaps be somewhere in between converting to LaTeX and to current R help format. -k =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-