Thanks to Brian Ripley I have been using R utilities for
some time for converting S-Plus UNIX nroff help files
to .Rd to .html files. .Rd files seem to be the most
natural format for help files and this format is probably easier
to maintain than nroff, so I would like to start
using .Rd files as my master documentation format
if anyone has a utility for going from .Rd to nroff.
I guess I could use .Rd -> html but the html would not
fully meet all the needs for S-Plus 6 help files.
Other approaches and ideas are most welcome.
Frank Harrell
P.S. I didn't get any reaction to my proposal to have
x- and y-axis specific par('mgp') parameters when
par(las=1). I hope that R-core will consider that.
Frank E Harrell Jr Prof. of Biostatistics & Statistics
Div. of Biostatistics & Epidem. Dept. of Health Evaluation Sciences
U. Virginia School of Medicine http://hesweb1.med.virginia.edu/biostat
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Thanks to Brian Ripley I have been using R utilities for
some time for converting S-Plus UNIX nroff help files
to .Rd to .html files. .Rd files seem to be the most
natural format for help files and this format is probably easier
to maintain than nroff, so I would like to start
using .Rd files as my master documentation format
if anyone has a utility for going from .Rd to nroff.
R CMD Rdconv
has S (nroff) documentation format as one of its output types
eg
R CMD Rdconv --type=Sd -o foo.d foo.Rd
-thomas
Thomas Lumley Asst. Professor, Biostatistics
tlumley at u.washington.edu University of Washington, Seattle
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P.S. I didn't get any reaction to my proposal to have
x- and y-axis specific par('mgp') parameters when
par(las=1). I hope that R-core will consider that.
My take on this is as follows ...
Doing this would make par() more complex and ...
(i) par() is quite complex already
(ii) there is no end to the number of parameters we could put in par()
to control specific aspects such as axis label locations.
I think that a better approach in this sort of case is to use a lower-level
tool to obtain greater control. In this particular case, axis() or mtext()
will give you the flexibility you need. The following code hopefully shows
what I mean ...
par(mfrow=c(2,2), mar=c(7,7,2,2), mgp=c(3,1,0), las=1)
plot(1:10, xlab="", ylab="", main="standard mgp setttings")
box("figure", lty="dashed")
par(mgp=c(7,3,0))
plot(1:10, xlab="", ylab="", main="custom mgp settings\nfor both axes")
box("figure", lty="dashed")
par(mgp=c(3,1,0))
plot(1:10, xlab="", ylab="", axes=F,
main="custom mgp settings\njust for the y-axis")
box()
axis(1)
par(mgp=c(7,5,0))
axis(2)
box("figure", lty="dashed")
par(mgp=c(3,1,0))
plot(1:10, xlab="", ylab="", axes=F,
main="even more custom settings\njust for the y-axis")
box()
axis(1)
axis(2, labels=FALSE)
mtext(c("Whatever", "I", "Want", "Wherever", "I want it"),
at=seq(10,2,-2), line=c(7, 7, 1, 4, 4), adj=c(0, 0, 1, .5, .5),
side=2)
box("figure", lty="dashed")
Happy to hear opposing arguments :)
Paul
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