Patrick Burns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Peter Dalgaard wrote: > > >"Richard A. O'Keefe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > [snip] > > > Good idea, but perhaps not phrased sharply enough to catch the > > user's > >eye. How about something like this: > > > >"Notice that image() interprets a matrix as a table of f(x_i, y_j), so > >the x axis corresponds to row number and the y axis to column number > >(bottom to top)." > > > >and then use Brian's one-liner in the examples section? > > > > Though I think the added text is a good idea, the addition of the example > is probably 102.58 times more useful than any text that could be inserted. > > The examples in help files are probably the main reason that people think > of R having better documentation than other programs. Like Unix man > pages, for example, which would be wonderful if only they had examples > so that you could figure out what the sentences mean when you understand > every word.
There are limits, I think. If you put too many variations into the example section, it tends to become a grey blob of code. Anyways, I'm going to add both. -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FAX: (+45) 35327907 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
