Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0504130955280.7213@gannet.stats>
Date: 2005-04-13T10:59:11Z
From: Brian Ripley
Subject: patch to add a menu item in Rgui for RSiteSearch
In-Reply-To: <425CDD1E.8050508@math.aau.dk>
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>> On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Liaw, Andy wrote:
>>
>>> Please consider adding the following to the next R release (I understand
>>> that it's too late for R-2.1.0). It adds the menu item `Search R Site' in
>>> the `Help' menu in Rgui (which calls RSiteSearch() on the input string).
>>
>>
>> Can you or someone else think of a better name? That sounds like it
>> searches www.r-project.org. I think even 'R Sites Search' would be better.
>>
>> Yes, it is too late: we need lead time for the translators these days.
>> (RGui has Chinese, German, Italian and Japanese menus available.)
>
> I'd suggest "R help online...".
But, it is not 'help online': it is searching docs and past help.
> After the release, I think this should go into R-patched. Do we have tools
> to tell the translators all the new strings that need translating, or should
> they be explicitly informed about such a thing?
Yes, msgmerge/msgfmt tells them. The message catalogues change almost
daily as people add features.
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