On 28/02/2010 9:08 AM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Duncan Murdoch <murd...@stats.uwo.ca> wrote:
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.
By Index page I was referring to the page you get when you click Index
at the bottom of any HTML help file. After clicking Index you get an
HTML page that gives a clickable list of help pages for that package.
You don`t get the description of the package, the name and contact
info to the maintainer, or a link to such info. For the
helloJavaWorld package this is what you get (where I have added a star
after each link):
Hello Java World
Documentation for package ‘helloJavaWorld’ version 0.0-6
User Guides and Package Vignettes
Read overview* or browse directory*.
Help Pages
helloJavaWorld* Function to say hello from a Java class
That looks like 2.10.x or earlier. In R-devel (to be 2.11.0) you get:
Documentation for package ‘helloJavaWorld’ version 0.0-7
* DESCRIPTION file.
* Overview of user guides and package vignettes; browse directory.
Help Pages
helloJavaWorld Function to say hello from a Java class
The only addition for that particular package is the link to the
DESCRIPTION file, which contains most of the additional information
that's on the CRAN page. Other pages will also show links to demos and
package NEWS.
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