Update package description

Author: arni-magnusson

DESCRIPTION

@@ -12,31 +12,21 @@ Authors@R: c(person(c("Gregory", "R."), "Warnes", role="aut", email="greg@warnes
              person("Ben", "Bolker", role="ctb"),
              person("Michael", "Chirico", role="ctb"),
              person("Gabor", "Grothendieck", role="ctb"),
-             person("Thomas", "Lumley", rol="ctb"),
+             person("Thomas", "Lumley", role="ctb"),
+             person("Brian", "Ripley", role="ctb"),
              person("inoui llc", role="fnd"))
 Depends: R (>= 2.3.0)
 Imports: gtools, methods, stats, utils
 Suggests: RUnit
 SystemRequirements: perl (>= 5.10.0)
-Description: Various R programming tools for data manipulation, including:
-   - medical unit conversions (ConvertMedUnits, MedUnits),
-   - combining objects (bindData, cbindX, combine, interleave),
-   - character vector operations (centerText, startsWith, trim),
-   - factor manipulation (levels, reorder.factor, mapLevels),
-   - obtaining information about R objects (object.size, env, humanReadable,
-     is.what, ll, keep, ls.funs, Args, nPairs, nobs),
-   - manipulating MS-Excel formatted files (read.xls, installXLSXsupport,
-     sheetCount, xlsFormats),
-   - generating fixed-width format files (write.fwf),
-   - extricating components of date & time objects (getYear, getMonth, getDay,
-     getHour, getMin, getSec),
-   - operations on columns of data frames  (matchcols, rename.vars),
-   - matrix operations (unmatrix, upperTriangle, lowerTriangle),
-   - operations on vectors (case, unknownToNA, duplicated2, trimSum),
-   - operations on data frames (frameApply, wideByFactor),
-   - value of last evaluated expression (ans), and
-   - wrapper for sample that ensures consistent behavior for both scalar and
-     vector arguments (resample).
+Description: Various R programming tools for data manipulation, including
+  medical unit conversions, combining objects, character vector operations,
+  factor manipulation, obtaining information about R objects, manipulating
+  MS-Excel formatted files, generating fixed-width format files, extracting
+  components of date & time objects, operations on columns of data frames,
+  matrix operations, operations on vectors, operations on data frames, value of
+  last evaluated expression, and a resample() wrapper for sample() that ensures
+  consistent behavior for both scalar and vector arguments.
 License: GPL-2
 URL: https://github.com/r-gregmisc/gdata
 BugReports: https://github.com/r-gregmisc/gdata/issues

README.md

@@ -15,9 +15,9 @@ Various R programming tools for data manipulation, including:
 - manipulating MS-Excel formatted files (`read.xls`, `installXLSXsupport`,
   `sheetCount`, `xlsFormats`),
 - generating fixed-width format files (`write.fwf`),
-- extricating components of date & time objects (`getYear`, `getMonth`,
+- extracting components of date & time objects (`getYear`, `getMonth`,
   `getDay`, `getHour`, `getMin`, `getSec`),
-- operations on columns of data frames  (`matchcols`, `rename.vars`),
+- operations on columns of data frames (`matchcols`, `rename.vars`),
 - matrix operations (`unmatrix`, `upperTriangle`, `lowerTriangle`),
 - operations on vectors (`case`, `unknownToNA`, `duplicated2`, `trimSum`),
 - operations on data frames (`frameApply`, `wideByFactor`),

man/gdata-package.Rd

@@ -4,26 +4,49 @@
 \docType{package}
 \title{Various R Programming Tools for Data Manipulation}
 \description{
-  \pkg{gdata} package provides various \R programming tools for data
-  manipulation.
-}
-\details{
-  The following are sources of information on \pkg{gdata} package:
-  \tabular{ll}{
-    DESCRIPTION file  \tab \code{library(help="gdata")}\cr
-                      \tab \cr
-    This file         \tab \code{?gdata}\cr
-                      \tab \cr
-    Vignette          \tab \code{vignette("unknown")}\cr
-                      \tab \code{vignette("mapLevels")}\cr
-                      \tab \cr
-    Some help files   \tab \code{\link{Args}}\cr
-                      \tab \code{\link{ll}}\cr
-                      \tab \code{\link{write.fwf}}\cr
-                      \tab \cr
-    News              \tab \code{news(package="gdata")}\cr
-                      \tab \cr
-    List of functions \tab \code{help(package="gdata")}\cr
+Various R programming tools for data manipulation, including:
+  \itemize{
+    \item Medical unit conversions: \code{\link{ConvertMedUnits}},
+      \code{\link{MedUnits}}
+    \item Combining objects: \code{link{bindData}},
+      \code{\link{cbindX}}, \code{\link{combine}},
+      \code{\link{interleave}}
+    \item Character vector operations: \code{\link{centerText}},
+      \code{\link{startsWith}}, \code{\link{trim}}
+    \item Factor manipulation: \code{\link{levels}},
+      \code{\link{reorder.factor}}, \code{\link{mapLevels}}
+    \item Obtaining information about R objects:
+      \code{\link{object.size}}, \code{\link{env}},
+      \code{\link{humanReadable}}, \code{\link{is.what}},
+      \code{\link{ll}}, \code{\link{keep}}, \code{\link{ls.funs}},
+      \code{\link{Args}}, \code{\link{nPairs}}, \code{\link{nobs}}
+    \item Manipulating MS-Excel formatted files: \code{\link{read.xls}},
+      \code{\link{installXLSXsupport}}, \code{\link{sheetCount}},
+      \code{\link{xlsFormats}}
+    \item Generating fixed-width format files: \code{\link{write.fwf}}
+    \item Extracting components of date & time objects:
+      \code{\link{getYear}}, \code{\link{getMonth}},
+      \code{\link{getDay}}, \code{\link{getHour}}, \code{\link{getMin}},
+      \code{\link{getSec}}
+    \item Operations on columns of data frames: \code{\link{matchcols}},
+      \code{\link{rename.vars}}
+    \item Matrix operations: \code{\link{unmatrix}},
+      \code{\link{upperTriangle}}, \code{\link{lowerTriangle}}
+    \item Operations on vectors: \code{\link{case}},
+      \code{\link{unknownToNA}}, \code{\link{duplicated2}},
+      \code{\link{trimSum}}
+    \item Operations on data frames: \code{\link{frameApply}},
+      \code{\link{wideByFactor}}
+    \item Value of last evaluated expression: \code{\link{ans}}
+    \item Wrapper for \code{sample} that ensures consistent behavior for
+      both scalar and vector arguments: \code{\link{resample}}
   }
 }
+\note{\code{browseVignettes()} shows package vignettes.}
+\author{
+  Gregory R. Warnes, Gregor Gorjanc, Arni Magnusson, Liviu Andronic, Jim
+  Rogers, Don MacQueen, and Ales Korosec, with contributions by Ben
+  Bolker, Michael Chirico, Gabor Grothendieck, Thomas Lumley, and Brian
+  Ripley.
+}
 \keyword{package}