On Mon, 14 Nov 2005, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > On 11/14/05, Paul Roebuck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Was looking at what was output for <pkgname>-package.Rd > > and wondered if any there was any means (via macro, etc) > > to merge some of the same information with a template > > for my package manpage? As much (all?) of the generated > > information was already provided in the DESCRIPTION, I'd > > prefer not to have to update the information in multiple > > places. I'm thinking here that I could provide a template > > file "<pkgname>-package.Rd.in" and during build, the > > DCF information could be substituted appropriately and > > "<pkgname>-package.Rd" would be output. > > > > see also: > > promptPackage method > > What I do is make my whatever-package.Rd page be > the central page where one can get a list of all > the other places one can look for info (rather than > placing the info itself there). See, for example, > > library(dyn) > package?dyn >
Thanks for your reply. That gives me some additional ideas but still think being able to display DCF information and public function listing would be a nice thing to have. For example, 'dyn-package.Rd' repeats its DCF description. ---------------------------------------------------------- SIGSIG -- signature too long (core dumped) ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
