Hi Kevin,
On 24 Dec 2006, at 23:20, Kevin Ballard wrote:
What is texscan? I never knew that, so I always just ignored the command ;)
I'm not sure the command is necessary, though, as you can get help on each function really easily, and if you need a template for args, there's always Insert Command Template.
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Arguably, this shows the default S3 method args when you give it the root, like it shows the args for mean.default when you give it mean, but Insert Command Template could always be tweaked to use foo.default if you just give it foo (and foo.default exists).
Yes of course. 'Insert Command Template' goes hand in hand with 'Command Usage'.
My point was that 'Command Usage' could be sometimes helpful, if I only want to know, what is the default of a variable, for instance. I don't know who wrote this command and why did he/she use 'texscan' to parse the R help files written in TeX. I also don't know this function 'texscan' but I suppose that this function gives you the text specified within the LaTeX tag \begin {Usage}.
In order to use 'Command Usage' for everyone I rewrote it by searching within the HTML help files without any 'foreign' functions and I changed the behaviour of the system function 'find' to suppress the error messages.
Incidentally, COM=`cat` should work just as well as COM=`tail`. Any particular reason to use tail when you don't need the truncating abilities of that tool?
No, in that case you can easily write COM=`cat`.
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My other question was who is 'responsible' for the R bundle and can upload this changed version? I know the bundles are more or less a collaborative work but I believe that someone should organize these ;)
Best,
Hans