[R] Rdindex truncating titles?

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 07/11/2010 6:55 PM, Rolf Turner wrote:
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> On 8/11/2010, at 12:39 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
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>> I think you need to give us the source to look at to see what's going on.
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>> Duncan Murdoch
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> The same phenomenon can be observed for my Iso package which is available
> from CRAN.  The diff results for Iso are like so:
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>> diff INDEX Lib/Iso/INDEX
>> 3,5c3,5
>> <                          order isotonic regression of a set of data.
>> <  ufit                    Calculate an -- or the optimal -- unimodal
>> <                          isotonic regression of a set of data.
>> ---
>>>                          order isotonic
>>> ufit                    Calculate an - or the optimal - unimodal
>>>                          isotonic regression of a set
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In this case I think it is being truncated to fit.  The docs do say to 
limit the length of titles to 65 characters if possible; this is one 
place where it matters.  Your other examples looked shorter, but now I 
look again, maybe we weren't seeing all the lines?

I think the 65 character limit is coming from an HTML standard or 
recommendation.  The title shown in a browser can't be arbitrarily long. 
  Perhaps we could use a longer version of your title in the index; I 
forget exactly where the truncation takes place.

Duncan Murdoch