From friedrich.leisch at stat.uni-muenchen.de  Tue May 15 09:10:57 2007
From: friedrich.leisch at stat.uni-muenchen.de (Friedrich Leisch)
Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 09:10:57 +0200
Subject: [Rd] RFC: allow packages to advertise vignettes on Windows
In-Reply-To: <464905A3.1010305@stats.uwo.ca>
References: <m21whj2e0c.fsf@ziti.local>
	<464905A3.1010305@stats.uwo.ca>
Message-ID: <17993.23809.814547.976000@celebrian.ci.tuwien.ac.at>

>>>>> On Mon, 14 May 2007 20:58:11 -0400,
>>>>> Duncan Murdoch (DM) wrote:

  > [ ... GUI stuff deleted .... ]

I'm of course very much in favor of adding vignettes automatically to
the GUI.

  > By the way, another way to expose vignettes is to have them 
  > automatically added to the package help topic, with links in formats 
  > that support them.  I think we should do that too, but I don't know if 
  > it'll happen soon.

Umm, but there is already information in the package help, e.g., if I
do

	help(package="flexmix")

then the end of the page I get is

**********************************************************
Further information is available in the following vignettes in
directory '/home/Leisch/lib/R/flexmix/doc':

flexmix-intro: FlexMix: A General Framework for Finite Mixture Models
        and Latent Class Regression in R} (source, pdf)
regression-examples: Applications of finite mixtures of regression
        models (source, pdf)
**********************************************************


They are also linked into the HTML page for the package I get after
help.start().

Obviously one can do more (and the GUI thing is a very good idea,
because Windows users will look there first), but it's not like there
is nothing at all ...

Best,
Fritz



[Rd] RFC: allow packages to advertise vignettes on Windows
Friedrich Leisch