From twl8n at virginia.edu  Mon Mar 31 15:58:51 2003
From: twl8n at virginia.edu (Tom Laudeman)
Date: Mon Mar 31 21:58:57 2003
Subject: [Rd] docs, examples, man pages (PR#2711)
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Fritz, Peter,
Thanks for the notes. After learning that I needed to to R -CMD INSTALL 
I also found all kinds of docs. Very nice.

I was confused by multtest_1.0.tar.gz because I mistakenly un-tar'ed it 
and didn't find an INSTALL or README which I tend to think of as *nix 
standards.

I also looked in the ./inst/doc directory of the un-tar'ed tree. Nothing 
too useful looking there. I tried the PDF, and xpdf barfed. Of course, 
now I've read through the installation FAQ at the web site, and I know 
that it only takes one simple command to install the package.

Thanks again,
Tom.



>>>>>> On 31 Mar 2003 17:22:29 +0200,
>>>>>> Peter Dalgaard BSA (PDB) wrote:
> 
> 
>   > twl8n@virginia.edu writes:
>   >> It would be great if the man page had examples for each of the commands.
>   >> 
>   >> I've got R installed, but
>   >> 
>   >> info R
>   >> 
>   >> brings up the page for the GNU regular expression library. Any chance of 
>   >> having a complete set of man pages?
>   >> 
>   >> Plain text documentation is good. I don't use Latex, and no one I know 
>   >> uses it.
>   >> 
>   >> Thanks for a great package!
>   >> 
>   >> Tom
> 
>   > There *is* plaintext help for each command. Two thousand one hundred
>   > and ten files of it as of last count, albeit not in info format, but
>   > as text, html, and latex. For the same reason, the refman is not an
>   > info document but available in .dvi and .pdf formats. However, we
>   > might consider building one of the other documents in the manual
>   > collection (which are written in texinfo) in info format and put it
>   > into the info tree for info-afficionados.
> 
> Umm, we do exactly that, the make targets are
> 
> make info
> make install-info
> 
> E.g., typing "info R-intro" in a shell does the expected on my box ...
> 
> Best,
> Fritz


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[Rd] docs, examples, man pages (PR#2711)
Tom Laudeman