On 30/04/2010 10:22 AM, hadley wickham wrote:
Maybe Duncan could apply the same script that's being used for RNEWS
to the manuals?  An RSS feed of changes to the manuals would be really
useful.

My script is very NEWS specific. The manuals would be harder. You could get the diffs from svn pretty easily, but displaying them would be trickier: do you display the diffs in the .texi source, or convert to HTML and display the diffs there, or what? How much context around them? Not impossible, but not trivial.

Duncan


Hadley

On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 8:16 AM, Gabor Grothendieck
<ggrothendi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Some easy way to find out what has changed would be desirable here.
>
> On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Simon Urbanek
> <simon.urba...@r-project.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Apr 30, 2010, at 4:20 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>>
>>> We are planning to phase in some major changes to the R build process on 
Windows shortly, so expect problems and temporary unavailability of binary builds of R 
and of packages, and if you are building from sources, check out the latest version of 
the R-admin manual (in the sources) for the current state.
>>>
>>
>> To make sure no one has an excuse for not reading the current manuals - they 
are available (built nightly) at
>>
>> http://r.research.att.com/man/
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Simon
>>
>>
>>> The planned changes are
>>>
>>> - to move the 32-bit builds to MinGW's recent release of gcc 4.5.0 (but 
with static linking of the Fortran and C++ runtimes: dynamic linking of C++ in packages 
crashes R).
>>>
>>> - to merge the 32-bit and 64-bit builds into a single installer and (for at 
least 98% of CRAN) a single binary for each package.
>>>
>>> NB: R-devel is not due for release until ca October and changes such as 
this are done early in the development cycle to allow plenty of time for them to be 
bedded down.  Please do take seriously the description as
>>>
>>> R version 2.12.0 Under development (unstable) (2010-04-29 r51864)
>>>                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>>
>>> --
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