From murdoch at stats.uwo.ca  Tue Jun  3 12:44:23 2008
From: murdoch at stats.uwo.ca (Duncan Murdoch)
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2008 06:44:23 -0400
Subject: [Rd] Request: Documentation of formulae
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S Ellison wrote:
> Rather than transport quantities of the Introduction to R (a perfectly
> sensible title for a very good starting point, IMHO) would it not be
> simpler and involve less maintenance to include a link or
> cross-reference in the 'formula' help page to the relevant part of the
> Introduction? If nothing else, that might get folk to look at the
> Introduction if they've bypassed it ....
>   

Yes, that would be much simpler.  I am hoping that help.search() will 
soon be able to look through the indices and tables of contents of the 
manuals, so that will be another way to discover the documentation.

Changing the title of the manual would be an unreasonable solution: it 
affects authors of dozens of books, not just R Core, who all have to 
track down every reference to the old title and write some ugly 
disjunction instead.

Duncan Murdoch
> Steve E
>
>   
>>>> Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch> 03/06/2008 07:48:46
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>>> "MP" == Mike Prager <mike.prager at noaa.gov>
>>>>>>             
>     MP> Mike Prager <mike.prager at noaa.gov> wrote:
>     >> I was at a loss to understand the use of "/" until I looked in
>     >> "An Introduction [!] to R," where I found the explanation. 
>     >> 
>     >> My request is that more complete material on model formulae be
>     >> lifted from "Introduction to R" (or elsewhere) and put into the
>     >> main online help files. 
>
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[Rd] Request: Documentation of formulae
Duncan Murdoch