Re: [Rd] Suggestion: help()

2005-06-08 Thread Torsten Hothorn
On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Duncan Murdoch wrote: [...] > My proposal (modified following the suggestions I've heard so far) is as > follows: > > - to check that a couple of help topic aliases exist (.package > and ) > - to recommend that .package contain general information about > the package, and

Re: [Rd] Suggestion: help()

2005-06-08 Thread A.J. Rossini
On 6/8/05, Torsten Hothorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > > [...] > > > My proposal (modified following the suggestions I've heard so far) is as > > follows: > > > > - to check that a couple of help topic aliases exist (.package > > and ) > > - to

Re: [Rd] Suggestion: help()

2005-06-08 Thread Robin Hankin
The reason I like .Rd files is that I can run the examples easily and, as Martin points out, one does not need to learn a new syntax. How about adding the following to R-exts: "We encourage the package developer to include a file named foo.package.Rd in the "man" directory, to provide a terse

Re: [Rd] Suggestion: help()

2005-06-08 Thread Kurt Hornik
> A J Rossini writes: > On 6/8/05, Torsten Hothorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Duncan Murdoch wrote: >> >> [...] >> >> > My proposal (modified following the suggestions I've heard so far) is as >> > follows: >> > >> > - to check that a couple of help topic aliases

Re: [Rd] Suggestion: help()

2005-06-08 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
It seems that it comes down to two things: 1) a standard Rd topic or alias .package, and 2) enforcing this standard with R CMD check. Pro's and con's for (1): Pros: - Easy to find overview information on a package, that is, you know *where* to find it. - Allows a packages to link to another p

Re: [Rd] Suggestion: help()

2005-06-08 Thread Duncan Murdoch
Henrik Bengtsson wrote: It seems that it comes down to two things: 1) a standard Rd topic or alias .package, and 2) enforcing this standard with R CMD check. Pro's and con's for (1): Pros: - Easy to find overview information on a package, that is, you know *where* to find it. - Allows a pack

Re: [Rd] Suggestion: help()

2005-06-08 Thread Duncan Murdoch
Torsten Hothorn wrote: On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Duncan Murdoch wrote: [...] My proposal (modified following the suggestions I've heard so far) is as follows: - to check that a couple of help topic aliases exist (.package and ) - to recommend that .package contain general information about the p

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[Rd] When are the perl modules compiled

2005-06-08 Thread Romain Francois
Hello expeRts, i would like to know when the perl modules are compiled, especially Rdconv. I played a little bit with the html help pages after the perl step, basically to change the body tag and add some stuff, but i would like perl to do that when building help pages. The goal of all that is

[Rd] Re: [R] How to vectorize

2005-06-08 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
To r-devel: The discussion below on r-help brought out the following: > plot(1:10) > text(5,5,lab=expression(italic(22*"33"))) has the effect of italicizing 33 (which is a character string) but not 22 (which is not). Is this intended behavior? It seems strange. I am using "R version 2.1.0, 2

Re: [Rd] Suggestion: help()

2005-06-08 Thread torsten
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > Torsten Hothorn wrote: > > On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > >>My proposal (modified following the suggestions I've heard so far) is as > >>follows: > >> > >> - to check that a couple of help topic aliases exist (.packa

[Rd] feature request: enhance solve function with a symmetric option for faster operation for symmetric matrix

2005-06-08 Thread Jason Liao
Dear R developers, Recently I have a simulation program that needs to solve a large number of linear regression A x = b, where A is symmetric and constantly chnages. I found that the solve function is considerably less efficient than solve_symmetric = function(A, B) { chol2in

Re: [Rd] feature request: enhance solve function with a symmetric option for faster operation for symmetric matrix

2005-06-08 Thread Douglas Bates
On 6/8/05, Jason Liao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear R developers, > > Recently I have a simulation program that needs to solve a large number > of linear regression A x = b, where A is symmetric and constantly > chnages. I found that the solve function is considerably less efficient > than >

Re: [Rd] Suggestion: help()

2005-06-08 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 6/8/2005 10:36 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Duncan Murdoch wrote: Torsten Hothorn wrote: > On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > > [...] > > >>My proposal (modified following the suggestions I've heard so far) is as >>follows: >> >> - to check that a couple of hel

[Rd] Bug in help(package=) (PR#7923)

2005-06-08 Thread murdoch
The following is a bug or mis-design in help(package=): > showhelp <- function(packageName) help(package=packageName) > > showhelp("utils") Error in .find.package(pkgName, lib.loc, verbose = verbose) : none of the packages were found The problem is that it calls library(help=) with ar

Re: [Rd] Re: [R] Problem going back to a viewport with gridBase

2005-06-08 Thread Paul Murrell
Hi Gabor Grothendieck wrote: Thanks. Yet one other comment to consider when thinking about this. Even if its not possible or advisable to guarantee order, even without the hash= idea, it may be possible to guarantee that default names are generated in some order that can be used by getChildre