From Friedrich.Leisch at univie.ac.at  Mon Mar 31 19:15:23 2003
From: Friedrich.Leisch at univie.ac.at (Friedrich.Leisch@univie.ac.at)
Date: Mon Mar 31 18:15:53 2003
Subject: [Rd] docs, examples, man pages (PR#2711)
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Message-ID: <16008.27035.245425.457116@ci.tuwien.ac.at>

>>>>> 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


[Rd] docs, examples, man pages (PR#2711)
Friedrich.Leisch@univie.ac.at