On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Henrik Bengtsson wrote:
Kurt Hornik wrote:
How would this be different from the results of
help(package = <package name>)
?
Thanks for that. I was not aware of this one; I like how DESCRIPTION is
included and how the index is divided in functions and dataset, e.g.
help(package=MASS). May I also suggest that the CITATION file is included
here, e.g. help(package=foreign).
My suggestion differ in the sense that 1) additional information may be
included such as which functions are "main" functions and which are of less
interest, and 2) that it would show up in the HTML index page too.
For point (1) you can write your own INDEX file, in which case it can have
more information than the auto-generated one. A simple example is the
survey package. My description of the INDEX file in courses has been that
it contains a line for every "sufficiently interesting" function. Writing
R Extensions says that "normally this file is missing" but I think this is
descriptive rather than prescriptive.
2) seems sensible. The INDEX file is included in the CRAN page and I find
it useful there.
-thomas
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