Many thanks to all who participated in the survey about writing R package vignettes. Following my post last Thursday the responses came in quickly in the evening and all day on Friday. Since Saturday the response rate has been decreasing constantly and I think it is time for a summary based on the 56 responses received. Summary - How to write a good vignette Length: Trust yourself, but aim for about 20 pages.
I am currently co-writing the vignette for the ChainLadder package and wonder what I should be focusing on. I have co-written the vignette of the googleVis package in the past and based it purely and what I thought would work. So, this is an experiment to find out, if user feedback will help me to write a better vignette. Let’s see how it develops. I will make the data available once I have at least 10 submission.