[R] Stuck in the Rd

Kurt Hornik Kurt.Hornik at ci.tuwien.ac.at
Fri Feb 23 14:38:39 CET 2001


>>>>> Jim Lemon writes:

> Having almost written a Tcl program to convert S help to Rd format, I
> have one problem that I have failed to solve after reading 'R-exts'.  Is
> there a tag something like '\item' that works in a similar way but
> doesn't have to be after an '\arguments' or '\value' tag?  I'm trying to
> include sections on 'MODEL PARAMETERS' and 'DESIGN PARAMETERS', but
> Rdconv is dropping all the info after the section title when I convert
> the result to HTML.  Other than that, the program appears to convert the
> files with only a few whiffy bits where font commands appear, and I can
> probably solve those.  Thanks for any suggestions from Rd gurus.

You can have all `standard' lists in Rd as well:

	\itemize	unnumbered lists
	\enumerate	numbered lists
	\describe	description lists

The R sources have several examples where these are used.

[The fact that \arguments and \value are specific \itemize lists, in
some sense, is mostly historical.]

-k
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