Re: [Rd] Front ends handling help.search() results?

2011-07-31 Thread Thomas Friedrichsmeier
On Saturday 30 July 2011, Duncan Murdoch wrote: I have not committed this code yet, because the new types of entries could mess up existing front ends and I wanted to give people some warning. I expect I'll commit (to R-devel only) within a day or two. Many thanks for the warning! I have

Re: [Rd] Front ends handling help.search() results?

2011-07-31 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
The R.rsp package has a proof of concept page: 1. library(R.rsp) 2. browseRsp(path=/R/help/) 3. At the bottom, there is a help.search form. Type in search term, e.g. svd. This is all web browser based, so it should be able to handle compiled vignettes (as long as there are valid paths/URL

[Rd] Reference classes: assignments to fields

2011-07-31 Thread John Chambers
In R-devel, a recent change (Rev. 56572) makes assignments to fields in reference classes consistent with assignments to slots in S4 classes, when the field was declared with a class in the call to setRefClass(). The value assigned must come from the declared class for the field, if any, or

Re: [Rd] Front ends handling help.search() results?

2011-07-31 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 11-07-31 12:32 PM, Henrik Bengtsson wrote: The R.rsp package has a proof of concept page: 1. library(R.rsp) 2. browseRsp(path=/R/help/) 3. At the bottom, there is a help.search form. Type in search term, e.g. svd. This is all web browser based, so it should be able to handle compiled