Suggestion: Add links to NEWS and CHANGES on help.start() page
In the case of R itself and the Windows platform this might usefully be placed into the Rgui help menu.
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 8:44 AM, Henrik Bengtsson <hb at stat.berkeley.edu> wrote:
Please note my initial comment that it is hard for newcomers to find or even know about the existence of NEWS (and worse CHANGES) [for R itself]. ?Yet, we often imply that they should have read those before reporting problems. /Henrik On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Romain Francois <romain.francois at dbmail.com> wrote:
On 11/13/2009 10:52 AM, Karl Ove Hufthammer wrote:
On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:37:31 +0100 Henrik Bengtsson <hb at stat.berkeley.edu> ?wrote:
I'd like to recommend that links to (local) NEWS and CHANGES are added
to the help.start() overview pages. ?help("NEWS")/help("CHANGE LOG")
and help("CHANGES") could display/refer to them as well.
Are you talking of the NEWS and CHANGES for R itself, or for packages too? It would be very useful having a convenience function for this for packages too. Perhaps something like library(news=MASS) (or MASS as a character string) and library(changes=spdep) similar to library(help=MASS) Or have I overlooked something, and a function for this already exists?
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