barplot manpage (PR#7331)

From: Tony Plate

At Tuesday 10:00 AM 11/2/2004, Dan Bolser wrote:

Would you mind telling me how to get at the documentation 
source code?

Download and unpack the source, then look for the appropriate .Rd 
file.  For example, in my copy of the source for R-1.9.1 
(old, don't work 
with this!), I find 
C:\R\R-1.9.1\src\library\graphics\man\barplot.Rd  (If 
this is not the appropriate source file, someone please say so!)
Starting with R-2.0.0, the Windows binary installer has an option for
installing the Rd files for at least R itself (not sure about recommended
packages), I believe exactly for the purpose that users can submit suggested
patches.
Is there a - how to change the documentation document? ( I 
will make one
if you give me some instructions....
I don't think such a document exists, but I'm not the person 
to help with this.
The `Writing R Extensions' manual has a section on how to write the Rd file.
I'm not sure how one would write a document that describes how to change a
Rd file...
I guess I can just edit a copy of the source and diff the 
original and
send the diff ?
Again, a member of R-core who might actually vet the changes 
and put them 
into the repository would be the appropriate one to comment on this.

Previous topics with the subject "Help Documentation" (which 
got filed with 
bug report numbers 6713, 6716, and 6717) also address this 
issue. (these 
appeared in March 2004).
When I find typos in the documentation, I just post them to R-devel.  R Core
has been very responsive to such posts.

Best,
Andy
-- Tony Plate

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Here is a change I made to the matrix.Rd file...

<     \code{list} of length 2 giving the row and column names
respectivly.}
---
    \code{list} of length 2.}
65,75d64
<
< # Example of setting row and column names
< data <- matrix(c(16522,34057,40949,
<                  19924,46032,55185),
<                nrow=2, ncol=3,
<                byrow=TRUE,
<                dimnames = list(
<                  c('PDB','MSD'),
<                  c('Entry','Chain','Domain')
<                  )
<                )

I also tried to create some instructions here...

http://fawn.unibw-hamburg.de/cgi-bin/Rwiki.pl?HowTo

(which you must feel free to edit (you can delete it entirly if you
like!)).

All the best,
Dan.

From: Tony Plate

At Tuesday 10:00 AM 11/2/2004, Dan Bolser wrote:

Would you mind telling me how to get at the documentation 
source code?

Download and unpack the source, then look for the appropriate .Rd 
file.  For example, in my copy of the source for R-1.9.1 
(old, don't work 
with this!), I find 
C:\R\R-1.9.1\src\library\graphics\man\barplot.Rd  (If 
this is not the appropriate source file, someone please say so!)
Starting with R-2.0.0, the Windows binary installer has an option for
installing the Rd files for at least R itself (not sure about recommended
packages), I believe exactly for the purpose that users can submit suggested
patches.

Is there a - how to change the documentation document? ( I 
will make one
if you give me some instructions....
I don't think such a document exists, but I'm not the person 
to help with this.
The `Writing R Extensions' manual has a section on how to write the Rd file.
I'm not sure how one would write a document that describes how to change a
Rd file...

I guess I can just edit a copy of the source and diff the 
original and
send the diff ?
Again, a member of R-core who might actually vet the changes 
and put them 
into the repository would be the appropriate one to comment on this.

Previous topics with the subject "Help Documentation" (which 
got filed with 
bug report numbers 6713, 6716, and 6717) also address this 
issue. (these 
appeared in March 2004).
When I find typos in the documentation, I just post them to R-devel.  R Core
has been very responsive to such posts.

Best,
Andy

-- Tony Plate

______________________________________________
R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list
https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

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