R devel - Mar 2009 - vignette index not linked into HTML help system for package

Dear R developers,

I observed that the html help page index entry "Read overview or browse 
directory" for package vignettes is missing in recent R-devel.

This happened on two independent computers (WinXP Prof. SP3, German) 
with R-devel compiled from sources svn rev. 48125 resp. 48128
It's the same for my own and also for more prominent packages as well 
(e.g. grid).

The vignettes and the index.html files exist and vignette() as well as 
browseVignettes() work as expected.

I have not found anything about this in NEWS or "Writing R
extensions",
which says:

"At install time an HTML index for all vignettes is automatically 
created from the \VignetteIndexEntry statements unless a file index.html 
exists in directory inst/doc. This index is linked into the HTML help 
system for each package."


Have I missed something?

Thanks a lot

Thomas Petzoldt



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Thomas Petzoldt
Technische Universitaet Dresden
Institut fuer Hydrobiologie        thomas.petzoldt at tu-dresden.de
01062 Dresden                      http://tu-dresden.de/hydrobiologie/
GERMANY

On 16/03/2009 7:16 AM, Thomas Petzoldt wrote:
> Dear R developers,
> 
> I observed that the html help page index entry "Read overview or
browse
> directory" for package vignettes is missing in recent R-devel.
Thanks for the report.  This is fixed now and will make it into the next 
release.  The code to build the HTML page was translated from Perl to R, 
and the lines to do this part were accidentally omitted.

Duncan Murdoch
> This happened on two independent computers (WinXP Prof. SP3, German) 
> with R-devel compiled from sources svn rev. 48125 resp. 48128
> It's the same for my own and also for more prominent packages as well 
> (e.g. grid).
> 
> The vignettes and the index.html files exist and vignette() as well as 
> browseVignettes() work as expected.
> 
> I have not found anything about this in NEWS or "Writing R
extensions",
> which says:
> 
> "At install time an HTML index for all vignettes is automatically 
> created from the \VignetteIndexEntry statements unless a file index.html 
> exists in directory inst/doc. This index is linked into the HTML help 
> system for each package."
> 
> 
> Have I missed something?
> 
> Thanks a lot
> 
> Thomas Petzoldt
> 
> 
>