From ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk  Sat Jun 30 07:43:03 2001
From: ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk (ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk)
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2001 08:43:03 +0200 (MET DST)
Subject: [Rd] Rd tag \link not working without \code (PR#1006)
Message-ID: <200106300643.IAA02934@pubhealth.ku.dk>

It's a typo: line 564 of share/perl/R/Rdconv.pm should be

	my ($id, $arg, $opt) = get_link($text);

That really would not have been hard to investigate!


On Sat, 30 Jun 2001 henrikb@braju.com wrote:

> Full_Name: Henrik Bengtsson
> Version: 1.3.0
> OS: Windows Me
> Submission from: (NULL) (216.175.124.18)
>
>
> Even though I know the Rd format might be replaced soon, I am report this just
> in case:
>
> The package optional argument for \link is *only* used when \link is in a \code
> environment. Example:
>
>   1) This link works: \code{\link[base]{cat}}
>   2) But not this one: \link[base]{cat}
>
> It looks like the "base" argument in the second case is not used at all. In HTML
> this results in a "missing" link, i.e. the search page is called. It is
> interesting to use \link without \code for non-object help pages such as
> "Introduction" etc.
>
> R.version:
>
> platform i386-pc-mingw32
> arch     x86
> os       Win32
> system   x86, Win32
> status
> major    1
> minor    3.0
> year     2001
> month    06
> day      22
> language R
>
> perl version: perl, v5.6.1 built for cygwin
>
> Thanks
>
> Henrik Bengtsson
>
>
>
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[Rd] Rd tag \link not working without \code (PR#1006)
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