[Rd] user defined macros in Rd files

Yihui Xie xie at yihui.name
Wed Oct 9 22:34:13 CEST 2013


+1. As an example, there are 91 instances of \newcommand{\CRANpkg} in
R source, and this number is still growing as I see:

$ grep "\\\\newcommand{\\\\CRANpkg}" -r . | wc
     91      91   10317

Regards,
Yihui
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On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Kasper Daniel Hansen
<kasperdanielhansen at gmail.com> wrote:
> R-exts, in "2.13 User-defined macros", discusses user-defined macros.  Is
> it possible to have macros defined in one file, be used by another (within
> a package)?  This would increase the usefulness substantially, IMHO.
>
> Best,
> Kasper



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