[Rd] Wish/suggestion: add output of citation() to package "manuals" (PR#9010)
friedrich.leisch at stat.uni-muenchen.de
friedrich.leisch at stat.uni-muenchen.de
Tue Jun 20 13:23:57 CEST 2006
>>>>> On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 12:22:42 +0200 (CEST),
>>>>> gregor gorjanc (gg) wrote:
> Dear R core,
> influenced by recent panel discussion in Vienna I think that it would be
> nice to add package specific output of citation() function to package
> reference manuals. I think that apropriate place would be just after
> fields from DESCRIPTION file. This will be OK for CRAN, but not for
> locally installed packages as there is not reference manual there (at
> least on my linux box) - why is this the case? Perhaps output of
> citation() could be added to package specific help page i.e. to
> mypackage.package.Rd file.
Yes, very good idea, I have put it onto my 2do list for 2.4.
Best,
Fritz
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