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document about manuals and .texi format #156

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The manuals do not use the same infrastructure as the help files. Specifically, as a GNU project, R uses GNU Texinfo to create the R manuals (https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/), so the source of the manuals are .texi files, e.g. https://github.com/r-devel/r-svn/blob/master/doc/manual/R-exts.texi, with different markup from .Rd files. Since .texi is not an R-specific format there is no need to document it fully here, but we should document that manuals use this format. You may need to create a new issue to add this in later in the chapter.

Also people may suggest changes without providing a formal patch.

I'm not sure that proposals for completely new documentation would get very far - that would certainly be unusual, so we shouldn't promote that as a typical way to contribute.

Originally posted by @hturner in #144 (comment)

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