On 28/02/2010 7:19 AM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
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.
Not all of the information on that page would make sense locally. Some
of it is there to help you decide whether to download the package, or to
actually download it.
The things I see that aren't available in the package index page in R-devel:
- CRAN checks
- download links
- reverse dependencies
Am I missing something? None of those seem like they'd be sensible locally.
Duncan Murdoch
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
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