R help - Jan 2005 - translate nroff .d or .sgml files to .rd files

Dear list,

I have some help file for S-Plus 2000 in .d and .sgml format. Is there a 
way to translate these files to .Rd files to use in an R package?

Thanks Fredrik Lundgren

"Fredrik Lundgren" <fredrik.bg.lundgren at bredband.net> writes:
> Dear list,
> 
> I have some help file for S-Plus 2000 in .d and .sgml format. Is there
> a way to translate these files to .Rd files to use in an R package?
> 
> Thanks Fredrik Lundgren
That's what

  R CMD Sd2Rd

is for. Not sure how/if it works on Windows, though. It's a Perl
script, so presumably you need Perl...

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   O__  ---- Peter Dalgaard             Blegdamsvej 3  
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 (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen   Denmark      Ph: (+45) 35327918
~~~~~~~~~~ - (p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk)             FAX: (+45) 35327907

On *nix:

~> R CMD Sd2Rd --help
Usage: R CMD Sd2Rd [options] FILE

Convert S documentation in FILE to R documentation format.

Options:
  -h, --help            print short help message and exit
  -v, --version         print Sd2Rd version info and exit
  -n                    render examples non-executable by wrapping them
                        into a \dontrun{} environment
  -x                    (S3 docs) interpret all single-quoted names
                        as code names

Email bug reports to <r-bugs at r-project.org>.

Don't know how well it might work for your situation, but probably worth a
try.

HTH,
Andy
> From: Fredrik Lundgren
> 
> Dear list,
> 
> I have some help file for S-Plus 2000 in .d and .sgml format. 
> Is there a 
> way to translate these files to .Rd files to use in an R package?
> 
> Thanks Fredrik Lundgren
> 
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