You could consider adding something to the wiki while you are waiting. On 5/21/06, Spencer Graves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a procedure for suggesting changes to HELP files of the core > R distribution? If yes, what is it? If it would be considered a > friendly gesture, I could find the relevant *.Rd file and submit a > suggested modification to it someplace. Alternatively, I could just > send suggestions someplace if they would receive appropriate > consideration. > > On many occasions, I think of modifications, e.g., additional > examples, that could be added to 'help' pages that I believe would make > it easier for people to understand how to use some R feature. Instead, > I often provide the same answer multiple times to different posts. > > I can think of two changes off the top of my head that I'd like to > see: First, many if not all of the helps page in the nlme and lme4 > packages should, I believe, include a reference Pinheiro and Bates. > This is not the place for modesty on the part of Pinheiro, Bates, and > co-workers. I believe that many requests for help might be eliminated > if such references were added. Failing that, it would be easier for > people like me to suggest someone read that book, because I wouldn't > feel such a need to spell out the entire citation every time. > > Second, I think the description of 'vignette' could be enhanced to > include some version of my 'p.s.' to > 'http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/73494.html' and other > similar posts. In particular, I see that the 'edit' method is described > there, but I didn't understand what it said until I already knew how to > use it. Also, 'edit' doesn't work for me under ESS / Emacs. For that, > I use Stangle (as Sundar Dorai-Raj taught me). > > Thanks, > Spencer Graves > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >
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