[R] building packages: "R Help for package foo" vs. "HTML Help"?

[Uwe Ligges]

Michael Friendly wrote:
> Uwe Ligges wrote:
>>
>>
>> Michael Friendly wrote:
>>> In building a package, what are the settings in the package files or 
>>> the build commands that
>>> determine whether the compiled HTML help windows have the window title
>>> "R Help for package foo" vs. "HTML Help"?
>>
>> Michael,
>>
>> can you give an example for a page with title "HTML Help"? I only 
>> found the "R Help for package foo" version during a quick inspection 
>> of a few examples.
> Sure:
> library(vcd); ?mosaic
> library(heplots); ?heplot
> library(car); ?Anova
> library(rgl); ?shade3d   # --- I believe up until just the latest 
> version (rgl_0.81.708) I downloaded from R-Forge


I get "R Help for package [foo]" for all of these. I have absolutely no 
idea why it is different on your machine.

Best wishes,
Uwe


> Here's my sessionInfo:
> 
>  > sessionInfo()
> R version 2.7.2 (2008-08-25)
> i386-pc-mingw32
> 
> locale:
> LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United 
> States.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United 
> States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
> 
> attached base packages:
> [1] grid      stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods 
> [8] base   
> other attached packages:
> [1] vcd_1.1-1       colorspace_0.95 MASS_7.2-44     rgl_0.81.708  [5] 
> heplots_0.8-0   car_1.2-8    
> 
>>> I often have quite a few help files active, and it is much more 
>>> convenient to navigate among
>>> them if the window has an informative title.
>>>
>>> If this is simple to test for in the build process, can/should this 
>>> be tested for
>>> (with a warning) or even enforced/automatically generated in the 
>>> scripts?
>>>
>>> -Michael
>>>
> 
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