Formatting of multiple args in help file

[dmurdoch]

This was reported to me by a student, so I'm not sure there isn't some other way to do this.

He had a function definition like this:

#' Show all relevant data on a student.
#' 
#' @param totalWeighting,cpWeighting,attendanceMethod,questionMethod See \code{\link{IDToCurrentGrade}}
#' @return A list with outputs from IDToName(), AssignmentMarks(), TestMarks(), IDToNotes(), and (if testWeighting is given) IDToCurrentGrade().
#' @export
foo <- function(totalWeighting, cpWeighting, attendanceMethod, questionMethod) {
      # content deleted  
}

The .Rd file ends up with a parameter entry like this:

\arguments{
\item{totalWeighting,cpWeighting,attendanceMethod,questionMethod}{See \code{\link{IDToCurrentGrade}}}
}

The problem is that without spaces after the commas, Rd2HTML forces the whole list of parameter names onto one line. This makes the display really wide, pushing the descriptive text off screen. The browser handles the wrapping nicely if there are spaces after the commas, but you can't put those into the .R file, because Roxygen treats spaces as the marker of the beginning of the descriptive text.

So I'd suggest that Roxygen should add a space after each comma when it produces the .Rd file. Possibly this should require different input (e.g. ,) to allow the .Rd to be produced without spaces, but I don't really know any good reasons to do that.

Here's my session info:

> sessionInfo(package="roxygen2")
R version 3.2.2 (2015-08-14)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0 (64-bit)
Running under: OS X 10.9.5 (Mavericks)

locale:
[1] en_CA.UTF-8/en_CA.UTF-8/en_CA.UTF-8/C/en_CA.UTF-8/en_CA.UTF-8

attached base packages:
character(0)

other attached packages:
[1] roxygen2_4.1.1

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
 [1] graphics_3.2.2      DBI_0.3.1           tools_3.2.2        
 [4] utils_3.2.2         grDevices_3.2.2     stats_3.2.2        
 [7] coursedb_0.0.0.9000 datasets_3.2.2      RSQLite_1.0.0      
[10] methods_3.2.2       base_3.2.2     

[hadley]

Yeah, I've noticed that too. I'll fix when I'm next working on roxygen2