[R-sig-Geo] [raster newbie] alternate doc for constructors?

Edzer Pebesma edzer.pebesma at uni-muenster.de
Sun Sep 30 11:54:50 CEST 2012


In general, the help called from inside R does not have this truncation
problem. E.g.

library(raster)
?brick

On 09/30/2012 09:46 AM, Roman Luštrik wrote:
> You can read the vignette source. Grab the source file from CRAN, you can
> find the .Rnw in /inst/doc.
> 
> Cheers,
> Roman
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 7:33 AM, Tom Roche <Tom_Roche at pobox.com> wrote:
> 
>>
>> I'm learning package=raster (more questions to follow!) by RTFM,
>> notably
>>
>> http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/raster/raster.pdf
>>
>> It's generally good, but has one major (IMHO) problem: in some places
>> (notably the sections on the constructor functions 'brick' (p31) and
>> 'raster' (p140)) definition lists don't wrap: instead, they truncate
>> at the edge of the virtual page. Another problem is the lack of
>> documentation of argument=lvar, as mentioned in the recent thread
>> beginning
>>
>> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-geo/2012-September/016160.html
>>
>> I'm wondering, is there 'raster' doc somewhere that does not have
>> these problems? E.g., HTML doc should solve the truncation problem.
>>
>> TIA, Tom Roche <Tom_Roche at pobox.com>
>>
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