[Rd] Rd files with multiple functions?
Prof Brian Ripley
Prof Brian Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk>
Fri, 28 Apr 2000 17:57:58 +0100 (BST)
> Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 12:51:37 -0400
> From: Paul Gilbert <pgilbert@bank-banque-canada.ca>
> To: Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch>, Douglas Bates
<bates@stat.wisc.edu>
> CC: R-devel <R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch>
> Subject: Re: [Rd] Rd files with multiple functions?
>
> >This "happens all the time".
> >It's even recommended in some cases (however people `fight' *which* cases
..).
> ...
> >For an example, see src/library/base/man/lm.Rd
>
> In my version of R src/library/base/man/lm.Rd just has one \name{} with
> multiple \alias{}s.
> What I meant was truely different functions (all the functions in a package)
so
> there would be multiple \name{} lines in the file. Is that possible?
No, the \name is the name of the *file*, the \alias'es are the names
of the objects.
Use \name for a topic, that is the package name in your example. See
e.g. Poisson.Rd that has \name{Poisson}, but there is no function
Poisson(), and the functions are named as \alias{}es
--
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