[R-SIG-Mac] Should packages installed with 64-bit GUI of R 2.10 still contain 'R-ex' directories?

[David Winsemius]

On Feb 8, 2010, at 5:32 PM, Jason MacKenzie wrote:

> Should packages installed with 64-bit GUI of R 2.10 still contain 'R- 
> ex'
> directories?
>
> I installed a universal binary of R 2.10 on Leopard (10.5.8) to run  
> the
> 64-bit GUI (R64.app).
> I installed all my packages 'At System Level' to
>
> ~/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.10/Resources/library/
>
> using a combination of 'install.views()' or by selecting 'local source
> package' when packages
> were not available on CRAN. For older binaries of R, packages always
> installed a directory
> 'R-ex' with demo scripts that helped me learn how to navigate  
> functions.
>
> Was 'R-ex' directory discontinued, or did something change about
> installations?

The new method is to type:

example( <function-name> )

As I understand it, the example function pulls the code out the the  
help page itself.

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David)
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> Jason
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David Winsemius, MD
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