Dear list, I've noticed for some packages the Index file in the help system has a single list of objects (arranged alphabetically), while for other packages this list is offered separately by letters... presumably when the number of help objects is high. Is there a way to manually split the help objects into categories? For example, I would like to have an alphabetic order for the group "datasets" and another alphabetical order for the group "functions". Needless to say that I've tried to read everything I could on this topic (especially "Writing R Extensions"), even looked closely on different package sources, but I haven't noticed anything special. Thanks, Adrian -- Adrian Dusa University of Bucharest Romanian Social Data Archive Sos. Panduri nr.90 050663 Bucharest sector 5 Romania
On 11/07/2014 12:11 PM, Adrian Du?a wrote:> Dear list, > > I've noticed for some packages the Index file in the help system has a > single list of objects (arranged alphabetically), while for other > packages this list is offered separately by letters... presumably when > the number of help objects is high. > > Is there a way to manually split the help objects into categories? > > For example, I would like to have an alphabetic order for the group > "datasets" and another alphabetical order for the group "functions". > > Needless to say that I've tried to read everything I could on this > topic (especially "Writing R Extensions"), even looked closely on > different package sources, but I haven't noticed anything special.You have a little bit of control of the order of topics in the PDF reference manual (e.g. see the lattice package), but the HTML help page is produced by R, not by you, and is presented in a standard alphabetical order. I would object quite strongly to people messing with that. Duncan Murdoch
Depending on what you want, you might be interested in the staticdocs package: https://github.com/hadley/staticdocs If you want to build your own HTML docs, and put it online somewhere, then it could be good enough for you. Gabor On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 12:11 PM, Adrian Du?a <dusa.adrian at unibuc.ro> wrote:> Dear list, > > I've noticed for some packages the Index file in the help system has a > single list of objects (arranged alphabetically), while for other > packages this list is offered separately by letters... presumably when > the number of help objects is high. > > Is there a way to manually split the help objects into categories? > > For example, I would like to have an alphabetic order for the group > "datasets" and another alphabetical order for the group "functions". > > Needless to say that I've tried to read everything I could on this > topic (especially "Writing R Extensions"), even looked closely on > different package sources, but I haven't noticed anything special. > > Thanks, > Adrian > > -- > Adrian Dusa > University of Bucharest > Romanian Social Data Archive > Sos. Panduri nr.90 > 050663 Bucharest sector 5 > Romania > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel