Thanks to Peter Dalgaard's message, I learned a bit more about the 'par' function and rewrote my HTML help file accordingly. Is it appropriate to submit such changes somewhere to improve the documentation? I would also be willing to write some missing documentation as well. Dr. Jim Lemon -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
>>>>> "Jim" == Jim Lemon <bitwrit at ozemail.com.au> writes:Jim> Thanks to Peter Dalgaard's message, I learned a bit more about the Jim> 'par' function and rewrote my HTML help file accordingly. Jim> Is it appropriate to submit such changes somewhere Jim> to improve the documentation? Of course! The appropriate place might be simply the R-devel mailing list, unless your changes are really big. In that case, you could offer an FTP / HTTP address where one could get your fix (as *.tar.gz file, if possible). However, note that you should not edit HTML files which are not the source, but rather the corresponding *.Rd files, RHOME/src/library/*/man/*.Rd ^ base mva eda stepfun from which the HTML, LaTeX, and [nt]roff files are produced automatically. Jim> I would also be willing to write some missing documentation as well. Thank you in advance. For that and the above (editing an *.Rd file), you probably should read current "Appendix A", entitled, ``Writing R documentation'' from RHOME/doc/manual/Man.dvi (assuming that you got so far...). ----- For the work you have already done on HTML, and if you don't have the will to redo in *.Rd, you can e-mail the output of diff -c file-old.html file-new.html to either R-devel or just to me. Thank you. Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch> <>< Seminar fuer Statistik, ETH-Zentrum SOL G1; Sonneggstr.33 ETH (Federal Inst. Technology) 8092 Zurich SWITZERLAND phone: x-41-1-632-3408 fax: ...-1086 http://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/~maechler/ -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
>>>>> On Mon, 11 May 1998 14:15:18 +0000, >>>>> Jim Lemon (JL) wrote:JL> Thanks to Peter Dalgaard's message, I learned a bit more about the 'par' JL> function and rewrote my HTML help file accordingly. Is it appropriate JL> to submit such changes somewhere to improve the documentation? Volunteers are always warmly welcome! Simply send improvements to the code to r-core at stat.math.ethz.ch (list of core developers team). Just to avoid reinvention of the wheel: *) Please make sure that you modify only code from a recent development version of R (a daily snapshot can be obtained from CRAN), because in the meantime we have changed considerably from the stable releases. *) You mentioned that you ``rewrote my HTML help file'' ... maybe this is just a misunderstanding on my side, but the HTML function pages are created automatically from R documentation source files (the *.Rd files in the man directory of each package). Modifications should be made to this files, the HTML files can then be created using $RHOME/etc/Rdconv --html file.Rd JL> I would also be willing to write some missing documentation as well. What exactly do you have in mind (there's so much documentation missing, that there's a wide variaty of fields to choose from ...). Anything would be welcome ... Best, -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Friedrich Leisch Institut f?r Statistik Tel: (+43 1) 58801 4546 Technische Universit?t Wien Fax: (+43 1) 504 14 98 Wiedner Hauptstra?e 8-10/1071 Friedrich.Leisch at ci.tuwien.ac.at A-1040 Wien, Austria http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~leisch PGP public key http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~leisch/pgp.key ------------------------------------------------------------------- -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._