Re: [R] R help question: How can we enable useRs to contribute corrections to help files faster ?

2010-03-01 Thread Charlie Sharpsteen
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Duncan Murdoch murd...@stats.uwo.ca wrote: That's a good point.  Okay, I'll add it (with some sort of addition to the man page to say how it's intended to be used), and perhaps with some special casing for base packages. Duncan Murdoch If it is being added,

[R] R help question: How can we enable useRs to contribute corrections to help files faster ?

2010-02-28 Thread Tal Galili
Hello dear R users, *Here is the background for my question:* I just had a look at the help file for ? Yeast in the HistData package. In it, I found a small spelling mistake where the word *c*istribution was written instead (so I imagin) *d*istribution. I thought maybe I should e-mail the

Re: [R] R help question: How can we enable useRs to contribute corrections to help files faster ?

2010-02-28 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
The name of the package is at the top of each help page and then library(help = myPackage) would get you the maintainer info. Or in place of the last step googling for CRAN myPackage would get to a page like this: http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/zoo/index.html so it could be done in two

Re: [R] R help question: How can we enable useRs to contribute corrections to help files faster ?

2010-02-28 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 28/02/2010 7:19 AM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: The name of the package is at the top of each help page and then library(help = myPackage) would get you the maintainer info. Or in place of the last step googling for CRAN myPackage would get to a page like this:

Re: [R] R help question: How can we enable useRs to contribute corrections to help files faster ?

2010-02-28 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Duncan Murdoch murd...@stats.uwo.ca wrote: On 28/02/2010 7:19 AM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: The name of the package is at the top of each help page and then library(help = myPackage) would get you the maintainer info.  Or in place of the last step googling for

Re: [R] R help question: How can we enable useRs to contribute corrections to help files faster ?

2010-02-28 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 28/02/2010 9:08 AM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Duncan Murdoch murd...@stats.uwo.ca wrote: On 28/02/2010 7:19 AM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: The name of the package is at the top of each help page and then library(help = myPackage) would get you the maintainer

Re: [R] R help question: How can we enable useRs to contribute corrections to help files faster ?

2010-02-28 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 9:43 AM, Duncan Murdoch murd...@stats.uwo.ca wrote: On 28/02/2010 9:08 AM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Duncan Murdoch murd...@stats.uwo.ca wrote: On 28/02/2010 7:19 AM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: The name of the package is at the top of

Re: [R] R help question: How can we enable useRs to contribute corrections to help files faster ?

2010-02-28 Thread Duncan Murdoch
Gabor Grothendieck wrote: On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 9:43 AM, Duncan Murdoch murd...@stats.uwo.ca wrote: On 28/02/2010 9:08 AM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Duncan Murdoch murd...@stats.uwo.ca wrote: On 28/02/2010 7:19 AM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:

Re: [R] R help question: How can we enable useRs to contribute corrections to help files faster ?

2010-02-28 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Duncan Murdoch murd...@stats.uwo.ca wrote: Gabor Grothendieck wrote: On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 9:43 AM, Duncan Murdoch murd...@stats.uwo.ca wrote: On 28/02/2010 9:08 AM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Duncan Murdoch

Re: [R] R help question: How can we enable useRs to contribute corrections to help files faster ?

2010-02-28 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 28/02/2010 12:04 PM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Duncan Murdoch murd...@stats.uwo.ca wrote: Gabor Grothendieck wrote: On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 9:43 AM, Duncan Murdoch murd...@stats.uwo.ca wrote: On 28/02/2010 9:08 AM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: On Sun, Feb

Re: [R] R help question: How can we enable useRs to contribute corrections to help files faster ?

2010-02-28 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Or both the short and and the long term won't happen. On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Duncan Murdoch murd...@stats.uwo.ca wrote: On 28/02/2010 12:04 PM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Duncan Murdoch murd...@stats.uwo.ca wrote: Gabor Grothendieck wrote: On

Re: [R] R help question: How can we enable useRs to contribute corrections to help files faster ?

2010-02-28 Thread Sharpie
is through the packageDescription() function: packageDescription('packageName')$Maintainer -Charlie -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/R-help-question-How-can-we-enable-useRs-to-contribute-corrections-to-help-files-faster-tp1572568p1572854.html Sent from the R help mailing list

Re: [R] R help question: How can we enable useRs to contribute corrections to help files faster ?

2010-02-28 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 28/02/2010 1:23 PM, Sharpie wrote: Duncan Murdoch wrote: Yes, I agree. In fact, I think the whole system needs to be updated. Anyone like doing HTML design? If I had the time, I would raise my hand for this one-- unfortunately school, work and other commitments leave me with a full

Re: [R] R help question: How can we enable useRs to contribute corrections to help files faster ?

2010-02-28 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
I wonder if this could be made pluggable in the sense that anyone could develop a CRAN package that hooks into the help system and takes over. If its already like that perhaps all that is needed is some documentation/guidance on how to develop such a package. There could be multiple alternative

Re: [R] R help question: How can we enable useRs to contribute corrections to help files faster ?

2010-02-28 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 28/02/2010 12:29 PM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: Or both the short and and the long term won't happen. That's one interpretation. I'd prefer to think that the short term changes happened in November. All the content is there; it just needs to be made prettier. Duncan Murdoch On Sun,

Re: [R] R help question: How can we enable useRs to contribute corrections to help files faster ?

2010-02-28 Thread Tal Galili
Duncan, As much as I agree with your remark in the general case, in this case - the annoyance is mostly for the next user and not the current one. If I spot a typo, after I figure what it had meant - my annoyance is over. I don't have any personal motivation to share the knowledge, asides from

Re: [R] R help question: How can we enable useRs to contribute corrections to help files faster ?

2010-02-28 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 28/02/2010 1:04 PM, Tal Galili wrote: Duncan, As much as I agree with your remark in the general case, in this case - the annoyance is mostly for the next user and not the current one. If I spot a typo, after I figure what it had meant - my annoyance is over. I don't have any personal

Re: [R] R help question: How can we enable useRs to contribute corrections to help files faster ?

2010-02-28 Thread Sharpie
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Re: [R] R help question: How can we enable useRs to contribute corrections to help files faster ?

2010-02-28 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Duncan Murdoch murd...@stats.uwo.ca wrote: On 28/02/2010 1:32 PM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: I wonder if this could be made pluggable in the sense that anyone could develop a CRAN package that hooks into the help system and takes over.  If its already like that

Re: [R] R help question: How can we enable useRs to contribute corrections to help files faster ?

2010-02-28 Thread David Winsemius
On Feb 28, 2010, at 1:04 PM, Tal Galili wrote: Duncan, As much as I agree with your remark in the general case, in this case - the annoyance is mostly for the next user and not the current one. If I spot a typo, after I figure what it had meant - my annoyance is over. I don't have any

Re: [R] R help question: How can we enable useRs to contribute corrections to help files faster ?

2010-02-28 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 28/02/2010 1:32 PM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: I wonder if this could be made pluggable in the sense that anyone could develop a CRAN package that hooks into the help system and takes over. If its already like that perhaps all that is needed is some documentation/guidance on how to develop

Re: [R] R help question: How can we enable useRs to contribute corrections to help files faster ?

2010-02-28 Thread Claudia Beleites
What about the short-term solution of having a function package.bug.report - along the lines of bug.report? E.g. see attachment Claudia -- Claudia Beleites Dipartimento dei Materiali e delle Risorse Naturali Università degli Studi di Trieste Via Valerio 2 I-34127 Trieste ITALY email:

Re: [R] R help question: How can we enable useRs to contribute corrections to help files faster ?

2010-02-28 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 28/02/2010 2:09 PM, Claudia Beleites wrote: What about the short-term solution of having a function package.bug.report - along the lines of bug.report? That has already been added: see the news here: http://developer.r-project.org/blosxom.cgi/R-devel/NEWS/2009/11/30#n2009-11-30 Duncan

Re: [R] R help question: How can we enable useRs to contribute corrections to help files faster ?

2010-02-28 Thread Jim Lemon
On 03/01/2010 05:47 AM, David Winsemius wrote: ... maintainer function(pkg=) packageDescription(pkg)$Maintainer maintainer(brew) [1] Jeffrey Horner jeff.hor...@vanderbilt.edu This is a great solution and deserves to go into the utils or tools package. When I first saw Tal's message, I