From ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk  Fri Feb 28 13:02:26 2014
From: ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian Ripley)
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 12:02:26 +0000
Subject: [Rd] vignettes with similar names
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On 28/02/2014 04:25, Michael Sumner wrote:
> In R 3.0.2 Patched (2014-01-31 r64905) and 3.0.3 beta (2014-02-25
> r65077) I see a problem loading vignettes when I create a package with
> two vignettes with similar names, e.g.
>
> "vignette3"
> "vignette3-install"
>
> These seem not to be distinguished, and I get this
>
> vignette("vignette3")
> vignette ?vignette3? not found
>
> vignette("vignette3-install")
> Warning message:
> vignette ?vignette3-install? found more than once,
> using the one found in ?.?
>
> This was not an issue in 2.15.3, and it works correctly in R-dev
> (2014-02-17 r65021).

Maybe, but we don't have a 'commented, minimal, self-contained, 
reproducible' example, to quote the posting guide.

However, R 3.0.x is in code freeze and will be completely frozen next week.

So your only recourse for 3.0.x is to avoid such names.

> Cheers, Mike.


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[Rd] vignettes with similar names
Prof Brian Ripley