R help - Jul 2004 - library manual: documentation of funcs not alphabetically ordered

Hello everybody

I'm putting finishing touches to a library, and have noticed that the 
.dvi file that R CMD check
creates  does not sort the functions in alphabetical order.

I find this odd because I used the "tidy"  routines in section 3.1 of 
the R-exts manual, which produce R code in which the functions are 
alphabetically ordered (and I performed R CMD check using the 
tidied-and-profiled R code).  My other library manuals are in 
alphabetical order.


How do I get a dvi manual with functions in alphabetical order?
What have I forgotten to do?



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Robin Hankin
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On Tue, 27 Jul 2004, Robin Hankin wrote:
> Hello everybody
> 
> I'm putting finishing touches to a library, 
package?
> and have noticed that the .dvi file that R CMD check creates does not
> sort the functions in alphabetical order.
It is not designed to, merely to check that the files can be processed.
Use R CMD Rd2dvi to produce a manual: that sorts the man/*.Rd files in the 
ASCII collate order (which may or may not be the same order as the 
function names).
> I find this odd because I used the "tidy"  routines in section
3.1 of
> the R-exts manual, which produce R code in which the functions are 
> alphabetically ordered (and I performed R CMD check using the 
> tidied-and-profiled R code).  My other library manuals are in 
> alphabetical order.
The R and man directories are unrelated.
> How do I get a dvi manual with functions in alphabetical order?
> What have I forgotten to do?
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