R help - Apr 2011 - How to offer a patch to a help page?

Hello all,

I wish to offer a patch to a help page (specifically ?update.packages).
Might you please direct me as to where to find the file, and how might it be
best to edit it? (on windows)

(My apologies for the n00b question...)

Best,
Tal


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On 11-04-24 12:51 PM, Tal Galili wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I wish to offer a patch to a help page (specifically ?update.packages).
> Might you please direct me as to where to find the file, and how might it
be
> best to edit it? (on windows)
>
> (My apologies for the n00b question...)
In the R sources, the help pages are stored in 
src/library/<package>/man, or occasionally in a platform-specific 
subdirectory of that.  Since update.packages is in the utils package, 
that would be src/library/utils/man.  The name of the page is 
"update.packages", so a first guess would be to look in a file called 
"update.packages.Rd", and that is indeed the right file.

Generally if you are putting together a patch, you should get agreement 
on the R-devel list that the change is worth making before putting a lot 
of effort into it, because not all patches are accepted.  If it is a 
very minor thing (e.g. correcting a typo), the simplest thing is to post 
the suggested correction to the R-devel list.

Duncan Murdoch