From ggrothendieck at gmail.com  Fri May 18 17:23:17 2007
From: ggrothendieck at gmail.com (Gabor Grothendieck)
Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 11:23:17 -0400
Subject: [Rd] RFC: allow packages to advertise vignettes on Windows
In-Reply-To: <464DBA70.7020407@stats.uwo.ca>
References: <m21whj2e0c.fsf@ziti.local> <464DBA70.7020407@stats.uwo.ca>
Message-ID: <971536df0705180823t4d0e7527vdd5aabab44853d63@mail.gmail.com>

Perhaps all the arguments in demo, data and vignette should be
regularized to be consistent, not just this one.

On 5/18/07, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca> wrote:
> I think we've agreed about adding an option to the vignette() function
> to allow the user to choose to see all vignettes in installed packages,
> or only those that are attached.  Adding this is pretty trivial, and
> I'll put it into R-devel soon.
>
> I'd like to set the default to show only attached packages, which would
> be consistent with the behaviour of demo() and data().  Vignettes are
> still less common than demos or data, so if I do this, I'll also change
> the "none found" message to something like
>
>  > vignette()
> no vignettes found
>
> Use 'vignette(all = TRUE)'
> to list the vignettes in all *available* packages.
>
> Will this change to the default behaviour cause a lot of trouble for anyone?
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
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[Rd] RFC: allow packages to advertise vignettes on Windows
Gabor Grothendieck