Suggestion: Add links to NEWS and CHANGES on help.start() page
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 4:06 AM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca> wrote:
On 13/11/2009 7:39 AM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
Its also difficult to know about demos unless you specifically issue a demo(package = "mypackage") command. ?It would be nice if these were listed too.
This is in R-devel now.
I just got the Windows version. For others information, the main HTML help page - help.start() - now ends with sections: -- Miscellaneous Material -- About R \t Authors \t Resources License \t Frequently Asked Questions \t Thanks \t NEWS -- Material specific to the Windows port -- CHANGES \t Windows FAQ The links to the NEWS and the CHANGES are new. Thanks a bunch Duncan - beautiful and useful. /Henrik
Note that the NEWS and/or ChangeLog file are listed on the package's CRAN page such as: ? http://cran.r-project.org/package=zoo but the demos are not listed even there.
The structure is in place for displaying package news, but it doesn't display yet. ?I think Kurt Hornik is working on the actual display. Duncan Murdoch
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 3:37 AM, Henrik Bengtsson <hb at stat.berkeley.edu> wrote:
Hi,
right now it is actually a bit tricky to locate and view the NEWS and
the CHANGES files, especially if you are a beginning and don't even
know that you are supposed to look for them.
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.
/Henrik
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