It would be great if the man page had examples for each of the commands. I've got R installed, but info R brings up the page for the GNU regular expression library. Any chance of having a complete set of man pages? Plain text documentation is good. I don't use Latex, and no one I know uses it. Thanks for a great package! Tom -- Tom Laudeman mailto:twl8n@virginia.edu (434) 924-2456 http://www.people.virginia.edu/~twl8n/ http://laudeman.com/
On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 twl8n@virginia.edu wrote:> It would be great if the man page had examples for each of the commands. > > I've got R installed, but > > info R > > brings up the page for the GNU regular expression library. Any chance of > having a complete set of man pages? > > Plain text documentation is good. I don't use Latex, and no one I know > uses it.There's plain text help from within R, and the R html help can be read quite easily with lynx. -thomas
twl8n@virginia.edu writes:> It would be great if the man page had examples for each of the commands. > > I've got R installed, but > > info R > > brings up the page for the GNU regular expression library. Any chance of > having a complete set of man pages? > > Plain text documentation is good. I don't use Latex, and no one I know > uses it. > > Thanks for a great package! > > TomThere *is* plaintext help for each command. Two thousand one hundred and ten files of it as of last count, albeit not in info format, but as text, html, and latex. For the same reason, the refman is not an info document but available in .dvi and .pdf formats. However, we might consider building one of the other documents in the manual collection (which are written in texinfo) in info format and put it into the info tree for info-afficionados. [As for not using LaTeX: Your loss, especially when dealing with mathematically oriented software...] -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - (p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk) FAX: (+45) 35327907
On 31 Mar 2003, Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote:> However, we > might consider building one of the other documents in the manual > collection (which are written in texinfo) in info format and put it > into the info tree for info-afficionados. >We already do this if the right tools are available at build time, and the man page describes how to read it. -thomas