From kleiman at rohan.sdsu.edu  Wed Jan  5 23:53:58 2011
From: kleiman at rohan.sdsu.edu (Elliot Todd Kleiman)
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 14:53:58 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [Rd] \VignetteKeywords{}, for KEYWORDS or for free-tagging?
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Hi Kurt,

Thank you very much for clarifying this.

I hope that some documentation may be
written about these commands and added
to one of the manuals in the future.

+ Elliot


On Wed, 5 Jan 2011, Kurt Hornik wrote:

>>>>>> Elliot Todd Kleiman writes:
>
>> Hi Kurt,
>> Thank you for the info!
>
>> However, I would also like to ask:
>
>> * Since the user may use any words as 'keywords',
>> what is the purpose of this command and what are
>> the benefits of using it?
>
>> * Where is the documentation for the '\Vignette*'
>> commands?
>
>> Because other than the '\VignetteIndexEntry' command,
>> I could not find any mentioning of them in the R-exts
>> manual, http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-exts.html.
>
> I don't think that the vignette metadata are currently used "a lot".
> They make it into the vignette index but users don't get to play with
> this.  (There are long-standing plans to integrate vignettes into the
> help system [with help and help.search], though.)
>
> Best
> -k
>
>> Best,
>
>> + Elliot
>
>> On Mon, 3 Jan 2011, Kurt Horniks wrote:
>
>>>>>>>> Elliot Todd Kleiman writes:
>>>
>>>> Hi R-devel,
>>>> [Question]:
>>>
>>>> * Is there a KEYWORDS file to lookup 'keywords' to supply
>>>> the vignette command, '\VignetteKeywords{}'?
>>>
>>>> -or, is the pkg writer free to tag the vignette using any
>>>> keywords he/she chooses? i.e., free-tagging.
>>>
>>> For vignette keywords, the latter.
>>>
>>> Best
>>> -k
>>>
>>>> Thank you,
>>>
>>>> + Elliot Kleiman
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>
>



[Rd] \VignetteKeywords{}, for KEYWORDS or for free-tagging?
Elliot Todd Kleiman