On 18/04/2009 8:49 AM, Dan Kelley wrote:
I have written a function for my 'oce' package that creates a data.frame containing a variable name with a prime in it. (I use prime to indicate coordinate rotation, a reasonably standard convention that motivates the odd variable name.)How can I name that in an Rd file? I tried \code{u'} but R-2.9.0 doesn't like to build my package then, since it thinks I'm opening a string. So I tried \code{u\'} but then the backslash appears in the documentation.
The new convention is that \code{} contains legal R code (with a few exceptions for markup). You can use \preformatted{} or \samp{} for verbatim text. So \preformatted{u'} should display the way you like.
If you are using u' as a variable in R, you'd have to enter it as `u'`, and that should also be accepted in \code{}.
This stuff is in transition in 2.9.x; 2.10.x should make it all a bit cleaner, when the old somewhat inconsistent rules are no longer the default.
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