[Rd] Bug#361968: Wrong name in manpage

[friedrich.leisch at stat.uni-muenchen.de]

>>>>> On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 20:56:27 -0400,
>>>>> Duncan Murdoch (DM) wrote:

  > On 4/11/2006 7:45 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
  >> R-devel'ers, 
  >> 
  >> On 11 April 2006 at 10:24, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
  >> | 
  >> | Kanru,
  >> | 
  >> | Thanks for the bugreport.
  >> | 
  >> | On 11 April 2006 at 22:03, Kanru Chen wrote:
  >> | | Package: r-base-core
  >> | | Version: 2.2.1.svn37668-1
  >> | | Severity: minor
  >> | | 
  >> | | In manpage of /usr/bin/R, the first, fourth and last line shows `VERSION'
  >> | | instead of `R'.
  >> 
  >> I haven't seen any follow-up yet -- here is what it looks like (cut and
  >> pasted from Emacs man page viewer) and note the 'Version' in place of R:
  >> 
  >> VERSION(1)                            FSF                           VERSION(1)
  >> 
  >> NAME
  >> Version - a language for data analysis and graphics
  >> 
  >> SYNOPSIS
  >> R [options] [< infile] [> outfile]
  >> R CMD command [arguments]
  >> 
  >> DESCRIPTION
  >> Start  R,  a  system for statistical computation and graphics, with the
  >> specified options, or invoke an R tool via the 'R CMD' interface.
  >> [...]
  >> 
  >> 
  >> | | I believe it is a typo.
  >> | 
  >> | More likely something is wrong with how R.1 is autogenerated using help2man.
  >> | 
  >> | Incidentally, that `R --version' now starts its ouput with 'Version' rather
  >> | than R had bit us in the RPy builds where the version number was regexp'ed
  >> | out of the result, and was still expecting the line to start with R just like
  >> | help2man seems to expect the program name first. 
  >> 
  >> It seems to stem from src/main/version.c:
  >> 
  >> void attribute_hidden PrintVersionString(char *s)
  >> {
  >> if(strcmp(R_SVN_REVISION, "unknown")==0)
  >> {
  >> sprintf(s, "Version %s.%s %s (%s-%s-%s)",
  >> R_MAJOR, R_MINOR, R_STATUS, R_YEAR, R_MONTH, R_DAY);
  >> }
  >> else{
  >> if(strlen(R_STATUS)==0){
  >> sprintf(s, "Version %s.%s (%s-%s-%s)",
  >> R_MAJOR, R_MINOR, R_YEAR, R_MONTH, R_DAY);
  >> }
  >> else{
  >> sprintf(s, "Version %s.%s %s (%s-%s-%s r%s)",
  >> R_MAJOR, R_MINOR, R_STATUS, R_YEAR, R_MONTH, R_DAY,
  >> R_SVN_REVISION);
  >> }
  >> }
  >> }
  >> 
  >> Would replacing 'Version ...' with 'R (Version ...)' be an acceptable
  >> alternative ?

  > I think the problem is that PrintVersion (a few lines up from there) 
  > used to put the R in front; PrintVersionString doesn't include the R. 
  > PrintVersionString is called from other places where the R would not be 
  > appropriate, but PrintVersion is only called when acting on `R 
  > --version' or synonyms.

  > Fritz, I think this was your change in r36923 a few months ago.  Do you 
  > have time to deal with it?

Yes, will do later today.

Best,
Fritz