From Kurt.Hornik@wu-wien.ac.at  Tue Apr 30 06:13:59 2002
From: Kurt.Hornik@wu-wien.ac.at (Kurt Hornik)
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 07:13:59 +0200
Subject: [Rd] finding vignettes for new users...
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Message-ID: <15566.10263.747991.415753@mithrandir.hornik.net>

>>>>> A J Rossini writes:

> What would be the best way to point new users to the PDF vignette
> file?   (it would be just jolly if library(vignette=packagename) fired
> up acrobat reader :-).

The current procedure is that

	help(package = "FOO")
	library(help = "FOO")

points you to the vignettes in package FOO (provided that there are
some).  How to actually view them is something we need to carefully
consider: e.g., an alternative would be to integrate viewing pdf into
our current HTML help system.  I am not saying that this is a good idea
though as I think we want to move to something that can render HTML and
be controlled from R.

-k
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[Rd] finding vignettes for new users...
Kurt Hornik