The name of the package is at the top of each help page and then library(help = myPackage) would get you the maintainer info. Or in place of the last step googling for CRAN myPackage would get to a page like this: http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/zoo/index.html so it could be done in two steps.
What would be nice would be if the R help systems HTML help page for each command had a link to a local version of the above page for the associated package (and perhaps the HTML Index page for the package would also link to it). Then it would just be a matter of bringing up the help page and clicking on the package name at the top. On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 5:44 AM, Tal Galili <tal.gal...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello dear R users, > > > *Here is the background for my question:* > > I just had a look at the help file for > ? Yeast > in the "HistData" package. > > In it, I found a small spelling mistake where the word "*c*istribution" was > written instead (so I imagin) "*d*istribution". > I thought maybe I should e-mail the developer. Since there is no link to > contacting the developer inside that help page, I went and googled the > package name. Found it's place on cran (in the third result), where I found > the maintainer to be Michael Friendly <friendly at yorku.ca> (Whom I am > corresponding to this e-mail). > > So it took me three steps to send a tiny typo: search the package on google, > find the maintainer e-mail (where "at" should be changed to "@"), and > writing an e-mail. > How could this have been faster? > > *Proposed solutions:* > > One (simple) way, is for the help page to have the maintainer e-mail present > at the bottom of every help page. Where upon clicking the link - an e-mail > will popup with the e-mails subject header containing the package and the > relevant help page title. > Another (more complex, but more scalable) way, is if the help page could > have been also present on some wiki. Inside the help page, there would be a > link to an "edit" section on the online wikipedia (R-help-epidia)- where I > could have just went and fixed the type. > > What do you think, and who should I propose this to? > > Best, > Tal > > > > > > > ----------------Contact > Details:------------------------------------------------------- > Contact me: tal.gal...@gmail.com | 972-52-7275845 > Read me: www.talgalili.com (Hebrew) | www.biostatistics.co.il (Hebrew) | > www.r-statistics.com (English) > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
