One small technical issue currently limiting the deployment of true reproducible wikis based on knitr + github-markdown is the lack of reverse synchronisation between the rendered output (markdown), edited online, and the original Rmd source. It think the combination of wiki features + reproducible source code has great potential for community-driven documentation (even for individual packages), but this relatively new use-case for reproducible documents may highlight a limitation in knitr's current framework [1].
On a more general note, and considering the positive sentiment toward github in the R community, it might be a good time to register a semi-official R-project organisation to regroup such initiatives, https://help.github.com/articles/creating-a-new-organization-account In the long-run, it would be nice to centralise some valuable resources that have appeared independently over the years, such as the R wiki, the R graph gallery [?], the unofficial CRAN mirror [2], the unofficial r-source mirror [3], and probably many others I forget or don't know about. Regards, baptiste [1] related discussion here: https://github.com/yihui/knitr/issues/536 [?] http://addictedtor.free.fr/graphiques/ [2] https://github.com/cran, https://github.com/metacran/ [3] https://github.com/wch/r-source On 9 September 2014 10:48, Martin Maechler <maech...@stat.math.ethz.ch> wrote: > >>>>> Philippe Grosjean <phgrosj...@sciviews.org> > >>>>> on Tue, 9 Sep 2014 08:45:14 +0200 writes: > > > Yihui and Gábor, I agree with you, and I also think that > > using Travis CI would be very nice. However, there are > > hundreds of page on the R wiki to migrate… and syntax is a > > little bit different than Markdown. > > > Of course, a solution would be to start again from > > scratch, but I think that those who have contributed to > > the R Wiki deserve more respect. Any suggestion, or idea > > about this? > > (and we have seen more on this thread ..) > > As one contributor to the former wiki and maintainer of the > good olde mailing lists, I completely agree (with > Yihui and Gábor and you) that it's best to move it over to an > infrastructure which takes care of authentication of legitimate > users and protection from thieves burglers, spammers, and the like. > > Markdown is definitely much better for R users (given knittr and > Rmd ..), and github is currently the place to host -- and once > it ceases to be that, markdown will be easier to migrate from. > > Martin > > > Best, > > > Philippe On 08 Sep 2014, at 23:12, Gábor Csárdi > > <csardi.ga...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> I second this suggestion. > >> > >> One possible complication I see is that if you would like > >> to run the R code (to display its output for example), > >> then AFAIK you cannot simply use Jekyll on Github's side, > >> but would need some additional infrastructure. > >> > >> It might be possible to use Travis (or some other) CI for > >> it, and avoid installing additional software and/or > >> servers, but anyway, this requires some care and effort. > >> > >> If you don't want to run the code, then it is very easy, > >> apart from the (one-time) migration cost. > >> > >> Best, Gabor > >> > >> On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 4:15 PM, Yihui Xie > >> <x...@yihui.name> wrote: > >>> I want to make a humble suggestion: migrate the wiki to > >>> Github, and build the pages using Jekyll+Markdown. That > >>> way, I think it will attract more volunteers. Simply > >>> look how many pull requests that Hadley has got for his > >>> up-coming book hosted on Github > >>> (http://adv-r.had.co.nz): > >>> https://github.com/hadley/adv-r/pulls I have had the > >>> experience of maintaining web servers and different > >>> wiki/CMS systems (including Dokuwiki -- I have even > >>> written a PHP plugin for it), and eventually I found I > >>> could not afford the time on the job of a system > >>> admin. Now I never do that again, and I just focus on > >>> maintaining the content. Let the professionals do the > >>> hosting and compilation service, and my life has become > >>> so much better (no more worries about security holes and > >>> attacks). > >>> > >>> Regards, Yihui > >>> -- > >>> Yihui Xie <xieyi...@gmail.com> Web: http://yihui.name > >>> > >>> > >>> On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 12:10 PM, Philippe GROSJEAN > >>> <philippe.grosj...@umons.ac.be> wrote: > >>>> Uwe and all, > >>>> > >>>> I have problems with the R wiki engine. It seems that > >>>> there is a systematic attack of the R wiki site that > >>>> produces an overconsumption of the server's CPU, and > >>>> consequently, my provider did shutdown the whole > >>>> SciViews.org web site. > >>>> > >>>> Now, it is a bad time for me to work on this (very busy > >>>> with exams + Master and PhD theses). I am currently > >>>> looking for an expert in CMS to look at the problem. I > >>>> don't know when I will be able to solve this and reopen > >>>> the R Wiki. > >>>> > >>>> Best, > >>>> > >>>> Philippe > >>>> ..............................................<°}))><........ > >>>> ) ) ) ) ) ( ( ( ( ( Prof. Philippe Grosjean ) ) ) ) ) ( > >>>> ( ( ( ( Numerical Ecology of Aquatic Systems ) ) ) ) ) > >>>> Mons University, Belgium ( ( ( ( ( > >>>> .............................................................. > >>>> > >>>> On 06 Sep 2014, at 17:28, Uwe Ligges > >>>> <lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de> wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> Rather than asking here, I'd ask Philippe Grosjean > >>>>> directly, hence CCIng. > >>>>> > >>>>> Best, Uwe Ligges > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> On 06.09.2014 01:17, André Z. D. A. wrote: > >>>>> This does not answer you, but if you are looking for > >>>>> something that existed on that wiki, it may help: > >>>>> > >>>>> > https://web.archive.org/web/20140112055032/http://rwiki.sciviews.org/ > >>>>> doku.php > >>>>> > >>>>> And that wiki doesn't look like it had a lot of activity: > >>>>> > https://web.archive.org/web/20140301000000*/http://rwiki.sciviews.org/ > >>> > >>> ______________________________________________ > >>> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > >>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > >> > >> ______________________________________________ > >> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
