... I learned something new about \concept, fine.

My next build will have standard keywords and \concept entries.

According to the suggestion of Martin Maechler, it would be great to have
one keyword more in the R database, I would prefer "Finance" for all the
new financial functions.

Is there an easy way to find out the keywords in SPlus modules, to see
how it is done in SPlus FinMetrics?


Thanks Diethelm





Martin Maechler wrote:

>>>>>>"Diethelm" == Diethelm Wuertz <wuertz@itp.phys.ethz.ch>
>>>>>>    on Mon, 31 May 2004 21:40:40 +0000 writes:
>>>>>>            
>>>>>>
>
>    Diethelm> Hello Elijah, Hello Dirk
>    Diethelm> First of all many thanks for your help and support.
>
>    Diethelm> 1) Sorry, I  used non-standard kyewords and thus I added to my 
>    Diethelm> doc/KEYWORDS.db database
>    Diethelm> the following lines:
>
>    Diethelm> Rmetrics: Rmetrics
>    Diethelm> Rmetrics|winRmetrics: winRmetrics
>    Diethelm> Rmetrics|fBasics: Basics
>    Diethelm> Rmetrics|fSeries: Series
>    Diethelm> Rmetrics|fExtremes: Extremes
>    Diethelm> Rmetrics|fOptions: Options
>
>    Diethelm> Then you don't get the warnings.
>
>    Diethelm> Maybe it is not a good idea to have non-standard keywords.
>
>yes, definitely not a good idea!
>The point about them is that there's a public well defined set.
>
>We know that \keyword{} is a bit of a misnomer (inherited from
>S's .KW) and denotes rather something like "category" (which has
>to be relatively broad and still relatively well defined).
>Consequently we have begun to use \concept{.} for `free' keywords
>or key phrases.  Note that \concept{} entries will also be found
>by help.search().
>
>Adding new keywords to the KEYWORDS.db (and KEYWORDS) is
>a possibility, but not to be done lightly.
>We (R-core) have added a few new keywords in the past, but not
>more than one or two per year (examples from the last three
>years are  'graphs', 'survey', 'databases', 'datagen', 'internal').
>
>We don't have a specific keyword for the realm of financial
>mathematics and statistics (there's "ts" for time series and
>"chron" for 'date and times'). 
>I don't think there should be more than one though. Some cheap 
>ideas would be one of
>\keyword{financial}
>\keyword{finance}
>\keyword{finmetrics}
>What does Insightful use for (their add-on module) "S+Finmetrics"?
>
>Best regards,
>Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch>	http://stat.ethz.ch/~maechler/
>Seminar fuer Statistik, ETH-Zentrum  LEO C16	Leonhardstr. 27
>ETH (Federal Inst. Technology)	8092 Zurich	SWITZERLAND
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>
>  
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