From murdoch at stats.uwo.ca  Mon Nov 16 04:06:33 2009
From: murdoch at stats.uwo.ca (Duncan Murdoch)
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:06:33 -0500
Subject: [Rd] Suggestion: Add links to NEWS and CHANGES on help.start()
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On 13/11/2009 7:39 AM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> Its also difficult to know about demos unless you specifically issue a
> demo(package = "mypackage") command.  It would be nice if these were
> listed too.

This is in R-devel now.

> Note that the NEWS and/or ChangeLog file are listed on the package's
> CRAN page such as:
> 
>    http://cran.r-project.org/package=zoo
> 
> but the demos are not listed even there.

The structure is in place for displaying package news, but it doesn't 
display yet.  I think Kurt Hornik is working on the actual display.

Duncan Murdoch

> 
> On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 3:37 AM, Henrik Bengtsson <hb at stat.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> right now it is actually a bit tricky to locate and view the NEWS and
>> the CHANGES files, especially if you are a beginning and don't even
>> know that you are supposed to look for them.
>>
>> I'd like to recommend that links to (local) NEWS and CHANGES are added
>> to the help.start() overview pages.  help("NEWS")/help("CHANGE LOG")
>> and help("CHANGES") could display/refer to them as well.
>>
>> /Henrik
>>
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[Rd] Suggestion: Add links to NEWS and CHANGES on help.start() page
Duncan Murdoch