Have you tried using 'promptData()' on the data frame and then just using the resulting documentation file?
-roger Arne Henningsen wrote: > Hi, > > since nobody answered to my first message, I try to explain my problem more > clearly and more general this time: > > I have a data set in my R package "micEcon", which has many variables (82). > Therefore, I would like to avoid to describe all variables in the "\format" > section of the documentation (.Rd file). However, doing this lets "R CMD > check" complain about "data codoc mismatches" (details see below). > Is there a way to avoid the description of all variables without getting a > complaint from "R CMD check"? > > Thanks, > Arne > > > ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- > > Subject: Documenting data sets with many variables > Date: Friday 05 August 2005 14:03 > From: Arne Henningsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch > > Hi, > > I extended the data set "Blanciforti86" that is included in my R package > "micEcon". For instance, I added consumer prices, annual consumption > expenditures and expenditure shares of eleven aggregate commodity groups. > The corresponding variables in the data frame are called "pAgg1", > "pAgg2", ..., "pAgg11", "xAgg1", "xAgg2", ..., "xAgg11", "wAgg1", > "wAgg2", ..., "wAgg11". To avoid to describe all 33 items in the "\format" > section of the documentation (.Rd file) I wrote something like > > \format{ > This data frame contains the following columns: > \describe{ > [ . . . ] > \item{xAggX}{Expenditure on the aggregate commodity group X > (in Millions of US-Dollars).} > \item{pAggX}{Price index for the aggregate commodity group X > (1972 = 100).} > \item{wAggX}{Expenditure share of the aggregate commodity group X.} > [ . . . ] > } > } > > and explained the 11 aggregate commodity groups only once in a different > section (1=food, 2=clothing, ... ). However, "R CMD check" now complains > about "data codoc mismatches", e.g. > Code: [...] pAgg1pAgg2 pAgg3 [...] > Docs: [...] pAggX [...] > > Is there a way to avoid the description of all 33 items without getting a > complaint from "R CMD check"? > > Thanks, > Arne > > ------------------------------------------------------- > -- Roger D. Peng http://www.biostat.jhsph.edu/~rpeng/ ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html