From Prof Brian Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk>  Fri Apr 28 17:57:58 2000
From: Prof Brian Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk> (Prof Brian Ripley)
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 17:57:58 +0100 (BST)
Subject: [Rd] Rd files with multiple functions?
Message-ID: <200004281657.RAA01123@toucan.stats.ox.ac.uk>


> Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 12:51:37 -0400
> From: Paul Gilbert <pgilbert@bank-banque-canada.ca>
> To: Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch>, Douglas Bates 
<bates@stat.wisc.edu>
> CC: R-devel <R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch>
> Subject: Re: [Rd] Rd files with multiple functions?
> 
> >This "happens all the time".
> >It's even recommended in some cases (however people `fight' *which* cases 
..).
> ...
> >For an example, see      src/library/base/man/lm.Rd
> 
> In my version of R src/library/base/man/lm.Rd just has one \name{}  with
> multiple \alias{}s.
> What I meant was truely different functions (all the functions in a package) 
so
> there would be multiple \name{} lines in the file. Is that possible?

No, the \name is the name of the *file*, the \alias'es are the names
of the objects.

Use \name for a topic, that is the package name in your example. See
e.g. Poisson.Rd that has \name{Poisson}, but there is no function
Poisson(), and the functions are named as \alias{}es

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[Rd] Rd files with multiple functions?
Prof Brian Ripley