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a technical communication document intended to give assistance to people using a particular system

A user guide or user's guide, also commonly known as a manual, is a technical communication document intended to give assistance to people using a particular system.

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Android: manual screen orientation without restarting the activity?

I need to make an app playing video with a button for full-screen on the video. The button is used to manually switch between landscape and portrait of the video display. We don't want the auto rotation detect. So the Manifest file is set as…
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How to prompt user for manual parameters when running build in Team City?

Say you make an automatic deploy script in TeamCity. The script uses SSH for connection to the prod-environment. I do not trust my build server and don't want to store the credentials in the build-script. How can I make TeamCity ask me for the…
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Help to understand magic_quotes_gpc()

i was learning this PHP code from a tutorial to upload files
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iOS camera: manual exposure duration but auto ISO?

I'm using the camera video feed for some image processing and would like to optimise for fastest shutter speed. I know you can manually set exposure duration and ISO using setExposureModeCustomWithDuration:ISO:completionHandler: but this requires…
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PostgreSQL protocol data representation format specification?

I am reading PostgreSQL protocol document. The document specifies message flow and containment format, but doesn't mention about how actual data fields are encoded in text/binary. For the text format, there's no mention at all. What does this mean?…
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How to do auto-renewal of TLS certificates with certbot?

I have an application with Nginx docker container for which the TLS certs are generated manually using the following command in the host (with Ubuntu OS) where application is deployed: certbot certonly --manual --manual-public-ip-logging-ok…
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How to include Authors@R in the manual of R package?

I have the following description file as part of my R package Package: blah Title: What the Package Does (one line, title case) Version: 0.0.0.9000 Authors@R: person("Jon", "Snow", email = "jon.snow@jonsnow.ac.uk", role = c("aut",…
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unable to install gganimate package from Github, both automatically and manually

I am currently trying to install the gganimate package but seem unable to. I am running Win 10, Rx64 3.3.0 and Rstudio 0.99.896; the following command: devtools::install_github("dgrtwo/gganimate") will throw this error: Downloading GitHub repo…
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R create reference manual with R CMD rd2pdf

I am creating a R package and want to make a pdf manual with it. I was using rd2pdf command for this. I have written R CMD Rd2pdf "C:/Users/razrahma/Documents/RPackage/mypackage" in the console. But it is showing Error: unexpected symbol in "R…
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PHP Manual - .chm file is not working

I just downloaded php_manual.en.chm file from http://us2.php.net/download-docs.php But Its not working. Whenever i open this file then i see following Message: Navigation to the webpage was canceled What you can try: Retype the address. (I am…
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What do the [], <>, - and -- mean in the help docs?

What do the [], <>, - and -- mean in the help docs? When I use git, I can use git help to show the usage of a command, but I am not quite sure I understand the symbols: $ git help usage: git [--version] [--help] [-C ] [-c name=value] …
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Is there a way to automatically update the documentation in an R package?

I used 'package.skeleton()' to generate .Rd help files a few months ago. I have edited these files, and I have also changed the functions, removed some functions, added others. Is there a function that automates updating the Rd files? update A nice…
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Reference manual for Apache Pig Latin

Pig is a dataflow programming environment for processing very large files. Pig's language is called Pig Latin. Does anyone know of a good reference manual for PigLatin? I'm looking for something that includes all the syntax and commands descriptions…
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What is the difference between a manual and a vignette?

I've been reading through R's Affy manual, and it refers to other vignettes. Does the difference between these two terms simply relate to quantity of content, or is there more to it?
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Manual merge on GIT

I develop in a proprietary script language with very resumed code in which most configurations are contained inside the code itself. The obvious problem would be the differences in the code itself between test and production environments and that's…
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