I always write mine by hand. Used to do it in notepad++. Now I just do it as a text file in the Rstudio IDE.
Avi On Thu, Aug 5, 2021 at 11:52 AM Martin Maechler <maech...@stat.math.ethz.ch> wrote: > >>>>> Iago Giné-Vázquez > >>>>> on Thu, 05 Aug 2021 08:09:48 +0000 writes: > > > Dear all, Are there any tools to edit .Rd files by hand > > (so avoiding roxygen2), as an editor (like could be > > *RdStudio*, à la RStudio or TeXstudio) or a plugin for ViM > > or another editor (like could be *vim-Rd*, à la > > vim-latex)? > > > Thanks for your answers, > > > Stay safe, Iago > > Yes, of course: > "All good" R package authors edit *.Rd files by hand > ((;-), well no, I know it's not true .. > I personally use roxygen (in ESS, see below) only sometimes at the very > beginning of writing a new function, or for functions that I > do *not* export, because there's a nice key stroke to create > the outline). ... and if I export that function use the > Roxygen -> Rd *once* only, and from then on, I edit the *.Rd nicely > including using descriptions lists, some math, etc... all well > indented, nicely human-readable etc, much nicer than hidden in > roxygen R comments) > > Rstudio has supported *.Rd in the past but as I'm not using it > regularly .. I don't know if they dropped it now... that would > honestly surprise me, though. > > Rather ESS (Emacs Speaks Statistics) has always well supported > Rd editing, and I thought the vim - plugin for R would also > support *.Rd but probably not ?? > > Best, > Martin > > -- > Martin Maechler > ETH Zurich, R Core Team (*and* ESS Core team) > > ______________________________________________ > R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel > -- Sent from Gmail Mobile [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
