[Rd] patch to add a menu item in Rgui for RSiteSearch

Duncan Murdoch murdoch at math.aau.dk
Wed Apr 13 10:49:34 CEST 2005


Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Liaw, Andy wrote:
> 
>> Please consider adding the following to the next R release (I understand
>> that it's too late for R-2.1.0).  It adds the menu item `Search R 
>> Site' in
>> the `Help' menu in Rgui (which calls RSiteSearch() on the input string).
> 
> 
> Can you or someone else think of a better name?  That sounds like it 
> searches www.r-project.org.  I think even 'R Sites Search' would be better.
> 
> Yes, it is too late: we need lead time for the translators these days.
> (RGui has Chinese, German, Italian and Japanese menus available.)

I'd suggest "R help online...".

After the release, I think this should go into R-patched.  Do we have 
tools to tell the translators all the new strings that need translating, 
or should they be explicitly informed about such a thing?

Duncan Murdoch



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