Re: [R] Improving help in R

2012-03-17 Thread Hadley Wickham
One difficulty in getting the help pages to look beautiful is that the original input is so inconsistent, and package authors (naturally) get upset when CRAN starts rejecting packages because of errors that used to be ignored.  The current output is definitely a compromise aimed at making most

Re: [R] Improving help in R

2012-03-15 Thread Patrick Connolly
On Wed, 14-Mar-2012 at 11:39PM +0100, Tomáš Křehlík wrote: | Hello R people | [...] | The best documentation that I ever used is probably one of | Mathematica, look for example here | http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/ref/Fit.html (it is | somehow related to the stuff below). [...]

Re: [R] Improving help in R

2012-03-15 Thread Barry Rowlingson
2012/3/14 Tomáš Křehlík tomas.kreh...@gmail.com: Hello R people I get the feeling (by some experience with learning programming languages when I am not primarily a programmer but economist/statistician) that structure of help really helps and I would like to have it to go in the way basic

Re: [R] Improving help in R

2012-03-15 Thread Berend Hasselman
On 14-03-2012, at 23:39, Tomáš Křehlík wrote: Hello R people I always wander what other people say about the R help. Finally after some years of using, I decided that it is probably time to try to do something about it, because the feeling of gritting teeth does not go away with years

Re: [R] Improving help in R

2012-03-15 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 12-03-14 6:39 PM, Tomáš Křehlík wrote: Hello R people I always wander what other people say about the R help. Finally after some years of using, I decided that it is probably time to try to do something about it, because the feeling of gritting teeth does not go away with years of usage.

[R] Improving help in R

2012-03-14 Thread Tomáš Křehlík
Hello R people I always wander what other people say about the R help. Finally after some years of using, I decided that it is probably time to try to do something about it, because the feeling of gritting teeth does not go away with years of usage. :) Moreover, I think it is one of the few