Henrik Bengtsson writes:
I would like to suggest a standard where all packages provide an Rd page
with the same name (or aliased) as the name of package so that
help(<package name>) or ?<package name> is always here. This especially
of interest to large packages with a large package index. This page
could explain the package in general and gives some hints on how to
start - not like extensive vignettes, but just to get started, e.g. list
the "most important" functions.
But isn't that just what vignettes are there for?
And I think nobody has said that vignettes should be "extensive", and if
they end up being so, that is a problem of the package author, and
probably would end up being the same with yet another form of documentation.
Best regards
Wolfgang
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Wolfgang Huber
European Bioinformatics Institute
European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Cambridge CB10 1SD
England
Phone: +44 1223 494642
Fax: +44 1223 494486
Http: www.ebi.ac.uk/huber
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