[R-pkg-devel] [FORGED] separate Functions: and Datasets: indices?

[Rolf Turner]

On 19/05/18 07:44, Ben Bolker wrote:

> 
>    I notice that when I say  help(package="MASS") I get separate indices
> for functions and data sets.  AFAICT this doesn't seem to occur in other
> packages that have both functions and data sets (e.g. mgcv, lattice,
> lme4), despite the tags \docType{data} and \keywords{datasets} being
> used in the relevant .Rd files; I don't see any other obvious magic in
> the .Rd files for MASS (in fact, they don't use the \docType{} tag at
> all ...
> 
>    Before I go spelunking, does anyone have any guesses/ideas/information
> about why MASS is special (or if it is)?

Doesn't happen to me.  (I am still using R 3.4.  Is this an R 3.5 
phenomenon?) I get single alphabetical listing, of functions and data 
sets, intermingled.  E.g.:

>                                           -- A -- > abbey 	  Determinations of Nickel Content
> accdeaths 	  Accidental Deaths in the US 1973-1978
> addterm 	  Try All One-Term Additions to a Model
> addterm.default Try All One-Term Additions to a Model
> addterm.glm 	  Try All One-Term Additions to a Model
> addterm.lm 	  Try All One-Term Additions to a Model
> Aids2 	  Australian AIDS Survival Data
> Animals 	  Brain and Body Weights for 28 Species
...
...

My session info:

>  > sessionInfo()
> R version 3.4.4 (2018-03-15)
> Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
> Running under: Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS
> 
> Matrix products: default
> BLAS: /usr/local/lib64/R/lib/libRblas.so
> LAPACK: /usr/local/lib64/R/lib/libRlapack.so
> 
> locale:
>  [1] LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C              
>  [3] LC_TIME=en_NZ.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_NZ.UTF-8    
>  [5] LC_MONETARY=en_NZ.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_NZ.UTF-8   
>  [7] LC_PAPER=en_NZ.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C                 
>  [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C            
> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_NZ.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C       
> 
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     
> 
> other attached packages:
> [1] misc_0.0-16
> 
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>  [1] Brobdingnag_1.2-4    splines_3.4.4        gtools_3.5.0        
>  [4] StanHeaders_2.16.0-1 threejs_0.3.1        shiny_1.0.3         
>  [7] assertthat_0.2.0     stats4_3.4.4         pillar_1.0.1       

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cheers,

Rolf

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