[Rd] Flat documentation?
A.J. Rossini
rossini@u.washington.edu
Wed Dec 11 02:29:02 2002
>>>>> "mark" == Mark Bravington <Mark.Bravington@csiro.au> writes:
mark> Eventually, writers will need to put things into Rd format, though. One
mark> thing that might make this easier, is tools that can produce Rd from other
mark> structured document formats for which there are already easy editing tools;
mark> LaTex springs to mind, or HTML. Tools for converting *from* Rd already
mark> exist, according to R-exts.pdf. (There was a recent exchange indicating that
mark> something like this used to exist for SGML, but is now broken.)
what about "prompt"? A bit more work, maybe a few widgets (ala
Bioconductor's widgets for adding MIAME information to chips; that is,
free-text fields/paragraphs) could result in "easy" generation of
documentation.
Or is that not simple enough?
best,
-tony
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