R devel - Apr 2001 - Bug in help for profile; more general problem? (PR#900)

The help topic for "profile" has a link to profile.glm in MASS which
doesn't work in the HTML help.  The problem is that there is no
profile.glm.html file, profile.glm is just an alias for the confint
help topic.

It would be nice if there were a general solution to this problem
(i.e. the system knew how to work with aliases), but it doesn't look
easy:  profile.html is in base, and may well be produced with no copy
of MASS around for reference.  

A short term fix would be to change the link in profile.Rd to
\link[MASS:confint]{profile.glm}, or to add a profile.glm help topic
to MASS.




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Version:
 platform = i386-pc-mingw32
 arch = x86
 os = Win32
 system = x86, Win32
 status = 
 major = 1
 minor = 2.2
 year = 2001
 month = 02
 day = 26
 language = R

Windows 9x 4.0 (build 1111)  B

Search Path:
 .GlobalEnv, package:ctest, Autoloads, package:base


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On Mon, 9 Apr 2001 dmurdoch@pair.com wrote:
> The help topic for "profile" has a link to profile.glm in MASS
which
> doesn't work in the HTML help.  The problem is that there is no
> profile.glm.html file, profile.glm is just an alias for the confint
> help topic.
>
> It would be nice if there were a general solution to this problem
> (i.e. the system knew how to work with aliases), but it doesn't look
> easy:  profile.html is in base, and may well be produced with no copy
> of MASS around for reference.
>
> A short term fix would be to change the link in profile.Rd to
> \link[MASS:confint]{profile.glm}, or to add a profile.glm help topic
> to MASS.
That is the fix: the person who changed added the reference did not
check it out.  I've altered it, thank you.

If the requisite packages are installed when the help files are converted
and there is no manual override, then the link will get found.
If not, it gets deferred to the search engine at run time.

Brian

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