[Rd] (PR#13287) Line breaks in mathematical formulae in Rd files

[Yihui Xie]

Thanks, Prof Ripley, I do have noticed the manual; what I mean is the
"displaymath" environment might not be appropriate for R documentation
when there are multiple lines of formulae; I'm sorry this seems to be
a suggestion rather than a bug... According to your response, the only
solution is write several displayed equations when a single equation
is too long?

Regards,
Yihui
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On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 12:29 AM, Prof Brian Ripley
<ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> I think the 'problem' is a lack of attention to the manual.
>
>  deqn gives "displayed equations" (as in LaTeX's displaymath environment,
>  or TeX's $$...$$).
>
> seems pretty clear to me, and I hope to any LaTeX user.
>
> On Fri, 14 Nov 2008, xieyihui at gmail.com wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> This is a problem about writing R documentation (R-exts 2.6). The
>> command "\deqn" defined in "Rd.sty" is:
>>
>> \newcommand{\deqn}[2]{\[#1\]}
>>
>> which will put mathematical formulae in the "displaymath" environment;
>
> Well, surprise, surprise it does what it is documented to do!
>

I didn't mean there was something wrong - I was just explaining the
definition which could be modified as below.

>> that means line breaks are not allowed (or will not be shown) in
>> formulae, but sometimes we do need multiple lines of formulae. One
>> solution is to write several equations using "\deqn", but I think to
>> change the definition of "\deqn" is better:
>>
>> \newcommand{\deqn}[2]{\begin{eqnarray*}#1\end{eqnarray*}}
>
> That will change the spacing.
>
>> This will not change the pdfLaTeX output effect, moreover, line breaks
>> and alignments using "&" will be available in math formulae.
>
> Not to the non-latex conversions.

OK, I see. Thanks!

>
>> Regards,
>> Yihui
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>> Renmin University of China, Beijing, 100872, China
>>
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