On 11/21/2012 09:08 AM, Michael Lawrence wrote:
This may already be documented somewhere, but do the package pages on the
bioc website link to any file present in inst/doc? Or does it only work for
PDF vignettes? It would be neat if people could produce vignettes in any
format and have them linked from the package pages.
This relates to Sean's idea of having wiki-like webs of documentation. In
theory, if HTML documents were included, they could link to other HTML
documents embedded in other packages. Ideally, there would also be "meta"
documents that describe high-level concepts and bridge packages.
But I think at least linking to HTML documents in inst/doc would be an easy
and useful first step, if it isn't supported already.
Hi Michael --
That's an interesting idea. There are some obstacles. For instance, a file
inst/doc/index.html can already be installed and accessible through R's help
system (help.start(), navigate to package page, then 'Overview of user guides
and package vignettes'; an example is in RGalaxy). There's then a conflict
between url's that are relative vs. fully specified.
Maybe there are ways to exploit R's help system more creatively? Or the project
could adopt a convention, 'files in inst/doc/bioc are linked from the landing page'?
Martin & Dan
Michael
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