[R] panel user guide

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Kari Ruohonen wrote:

> On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Prof Brian D Ripley wrote:
>
> > The FAQ suggests you ask the author of a package directly.
> > In this case it looks as if it is the file panel/doc/documentation.tex
> > in the package sources, and perhaps the README needs to explain this.
> >
> > General comment to package authors: documentation will not get installed
> > unless you provided a processed version in inst/doc. So having a PDF
> > version as  inst/doc/Panel-users-guide.pdf  (here) is a good idea.
>
> Thank you, I found it after downloading the sources from CRAN. In my case
> there was a further problem (I think) because I had installed
> package:panel from within R with install.packages() and presumably because
> of this I did not have the source tree after accepting "delete downloaded
> files" or something similar after the installation. If I am right a
> warning could be useful?

A warning on what?  Package authors are supposed to install everything
needed from the sources, so binary distributions are possible.


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