On Thu, 9 Sep 2004, A.J. Rossini wrote: > > rdevel from yesterday, also in 1.9.1 (Debian, -3). > > The man page of 'hist' (from the graphics package, obtained by > "?hist") suggests 'truehist' under "see also", but 'truehist' isn't > loaded by default (a sensible "of course"), so that "?truehist" fails. > One can do help.search(), of course, which points what to do, but > leads to my question: > > In referencing functions in other packages, should the "See Also" > link mention the library that they are coming from? I'm less > concerned about the example and more concerned about some packages > I'm wrapping up. > > (this was from the command line in a terminal window, not w/in ESS).
It is the norm: see e.g. format.Date.Rd or write.table.Rd, and a good idea. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
