[Rd] Bug#361968: Wrong name in manpage

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

Kanru,

Thanks for the bugreport.

On 11 April 2006 at 22:03, Kanru Chen wrote:
| Package: r-base-core
| Version: 2.2.1.svn37668-1
| Severity: minor
| 
| In manpage of /usr/bin/R, the first, fourth and last line shows `VERSION'
| instead of `R'.
|
| I believe it is a typo.

More likely something is wrong with how R.1 is autogenerated using help2man.

Incidentally, that `R --version' now starts its ouput with 'Version' rather
than R had bit us in the RPy builds where the version number was regexp'ed
out of the result, and was still expecting the line to start with R just like
help2man seems to expect the program name first. 

Regards, Dirk


| -- System Information:
| Debian Release: testing/unstable
|   APT prefers unstable
|   APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
| Architecture: i386 (i686)
| Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
| Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-rc5
| Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8)
| 
| Versions of packages r-base-core depends on:
| ii  atlas3-base [libblas.so.3 3.6.0-20       Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra
| ii  libbz2-1.0                1.0.3-2        high-quality block-sorting file co
| ii  libc6                     2.3.6-5        GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
| ii  libgcc1                   1:4.1.0-1      GCC support library
| ii  libgfortran0              4.0.3-1        Runtime library for GNU Fortran ap
| ii  libice6                   6.9.0.dfsg.1-6 Inter-Client Exchange library
| ii  libjpeg62                 6b-12          The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
| ii  libpaper-utils            1.1.14-7       Library for handling paper charact
| ii  libpcre3                  6.4-1.1        Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi
| ii  libpng12-0                1.2.8rel-5.1   PNG library - runtime
| ii  libreadline5              5.1-7          GNU readline and history libraries
| ii  libsm6                    6.9.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System Session Management
| ii  libx11-6                  6.9.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System protocol client li
| ii  libxt6                    6.9.0.dfsg.1-6 X Toolkit Intrinsics
| ii  perl                      5.8.8-4        Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
| ii  refblas3 [libblas.so.3]   1.2-8          Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines 3
| ii  tcl8.4                    8.4.12-1       Tcl (the Tool Command Language) v8
| ii  tk8.4                     8.4.12-1       Tk toolkit for Tcl and X11, v8.4 -
| ii  zlib-bin                  1:1.2.3-11     compression library - sample progr
| ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.3-11     compression library - runtime
| 
| Versions of packages r-base-core recommends:
| pn  r-base-dev              <none>           (no description available)
| ii  r-recommended           2.2.1.svn37668-1 GNU R collection of recommended pa
| 
| -- no debconf information
| 

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